February 8, 2018 Crestview, FL – The Crestview Police Department has received multiple calls from residents who have received phone calls purporting to be from a Gulf Power representative saying their payments to the electric utility are overdue. The callers often threaten to cut off the recipient’s power if payment is not immediately forthcoming. One business owner has already fallen victim ...
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February 8, 2018 Santa Rosa Beach, Fla — Suspects burglarized 13 unlocked vehicles early Tuesday morning stealing a computer, camera, cash and a loaded firearm. Investigators with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office are investigating multiple burglaries in the Cypress Breeze subdivision and Watersound North. Although the more than a dozen occurrences happened in separate neighborhoods, investigators believe them to be ...
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February 8, 2018 Congressman Matt Gaetz will host two roundtables with local pastors and veterans on medical cannabis research on Monday, February 12, 2017 in Milton and in Pensacola. Congressman Gaetz will be in Milton to meet with nearly a dozen local pastors to gain insight from the faith-based community regarding medical cannabis research and its impacts on the family and ...
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February 8, 2018 Behind a message of “Fight with Courage,” Crestview resident Riley Castro will be one of the 25 people featured in a new PSA rotating in Times Square this March for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Castro was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at 24 and has become an ambassador for the country’s leading advocacy organization focused on colorectal cancer ...
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February 6, 2018 DeFuniak Springs, Fla — Walton County Fire Rescue respond to a structure fire on Cosson Road in DeFuniak Springs to find a fully engulfed mobile home. Sunday night at 8:08 PM a 911 call promptly dispatched Walton County Fire Rescue crews to 2817 Cosson Road in reference to a residential fire. Firefighters and Paramedics arrived within minutes ...
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February 6, 2018 Milton, FL – A new twist to an old scam has shown up in Santa Rosa County where a person claiming to be an officer will call informing you, you have a warrant for your arrest for non-compliance to a jury duty summons. A Santa Rosa County resident received a phone call on February 5th from a ...
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February 6, 2018 Crestview, FL – If there’s one thing about which Crestview Police Chief Tony Taylor is adamant, it’s the right of every law-abiding American to keep and bear arms. So it was music to his ears when Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam announced Jan. 30th that his office was expediting the concealed weapons permit applications of 100,000 veterans ...
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February 6, 2018 Niceville, FL – A Niceville area woman and her disabled son are fighting for their lives after being attacked by a family member armed with a metal mallet around 6 a.m. this morning. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged 76-year old Judson Wood of 1911 Benton Avenue with two counts of attempted premeditated murder. OCSO Investigators say ...
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February 6, 2018 Crestview, FL – A Crestview man who beat his wife with his fists and a wooden table leg, then fired a shotgun at two other family members, has been charged with attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to 6253 Barnes Road around 2:45 p.m. Monday after getting reports of a ...
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February 6, 2018 Fort Walton Beach, FL – The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a review after a School Resource Officer inadvertently left her service weapon inside a faculty bathroom off-limits to students. The weapon was there less than five minutes before the officer realized she had not put it back on her belt after placing it on a shelf approximately ...
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