The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)rescued dozens of animals after performing a welfare check at a home on Florida Avenuenear Crestview last month. 44-year old Jarah Lee, 46-year old Bonnie Sue Hahn, and 20-year old Eveland Colbert werecharged with 14 counts of aggravated animal cruelty and 14 counts of animal […]
A Crestview man charged at Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies with a knife during a felony warrant service around midnight in Baker, resulting in an officer-involved shooting, S.O. officials said today in a news release.
Edmar Agustin Gonzalez, 33, of Crestview, Omar Josue Morales-Rodriguez, 44, of Freeport, and Marcos Aguilar Gonzalez, 39, of Santa Rosa Beach, each recently entered guilty pleas to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
A Crestview-area man who fled from an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy trying to make a traffic stop on Monday morning was soon captured, arrested, and jailed without bond on six charges.
A Baker School teacher is under arrest after failing to deliver aid or contact law enforcement in reference to a student who had attempted to kill herself.
On Thursday, March 7, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office changed Peggy Rambosk, 57, of Pensacola, with child neglect. She was apprehended Thursday and booked at Escambia County Jail.
A Holt man with numerous felony warrants who has fled from law enforcement multiple times in recent weeks was apprehended on Feb. 11 outside a home on Griffith Cemetery Road in Baker after being unable to outrun an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office K9.
On Feb. 9, an Okaloosa County Jury found Ledesma Wooden guilty of Attempted First Degree Premeditated Murder, First Degree Premeditated Murder, and Aggravated Battery Causing Great Bodily Harm. Mr. Wooden was sentenced to mandatory life in prison.
Crestview Police on Aug. 23 were continuing to investigate an apparent double murder-suicide that occurred last week at a home at 692 Brock Avenue, just south of downtown Crestview.
A Crestview man recently was arrested after Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials reportedly found him in possession of about 400 grams of methamphetamine, 160 grams of Fentanyl, a stolen semi-automatic pistol, a second semi-automatic pistol, an AK47 semi-automatic rifle and a large, undisclosed amount of cash.
