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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February 6, 2018 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering free hunter safety courses in two additional counties in February and march. Students who have taken the online course and wish to complete the classroom portion must bring the online-completion report with them. All firearms, ammunition and materials are provided free of charge. Students should bring a ...
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February 6, 2018 DeFuniak Springs, Fla — A new K9 has joined the Walton County Sheriff’s Office family and wasted no time making an impact on drug enforcement. K9 Jester, a Netherland born one-year-old Belgian Malinois recently joined the revamped K9 Unit at WCSO. Walton County Sheriff’s Office made the decision in October to pursue certification through the Florida Department of ...
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February 6, 2018 Fort Walton Beach, FL – An investigation by Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officers (SRO) led to the recovery of a loaded handgun hidden on an AMI Kids school bus in Fort Walton Beach this afternoon. A Snapchat video was sent to an SRO in Crestview depicting what appeared to be a student brandishing a firearm ...
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February 6, 2018 Crestview, FL – A Crestview area man was taken into custody shortly after four p.m. Monday in connection with a domestic violence related incident at his home on Barnes Road. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Deputies say 72-year old Thomas Davis Sr. of 6253 Barnes Road battered his wife earlier in the day with a wooden leg coffee table ...
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February 5, 2018 Okaloosa Island, FL – A Santa Rosa County man faces three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting of three people at an Okaloosa Island nightspot in May 2016. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 22-year old Nkosi Albertie Chamberlain on Wednesday January 31st at his Navarre home. Investigators say Albertie-Chamberlain ...
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February 5, 2018 DeFuniak Springs, FL – Two subjects arrested in DeFuniak Springs for possession of nearly a pound of pot. Officers with the DeFuniak Springs Police Department received a call of a suspicious vehicle Friday morning in the area of U.S. Highway 331 and Coy Burgess Loop. Opon arrival officers made contact with two subjects later identified as Jonathan ...
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February 4, 2018 Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators say a Fort Walton Beach couple told people a child has terminal brain cancer in a phony, yet successful attempt last fall to get donations to help with the cost of his “medical expenses”. The 13 year old has spent the last eight months believing he is going to die from brain ...
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February 3, 2018 Crestview, FL – Several Crestview families were displaced and at least one child injured when a local motel caught fire early this morning. Crestview Fire Department responded to the Hilton Motel located at 353 West James Lee Blvd shortly after midnight on Saturday for a structure fire. The fire, which started in room 129, caused significant damage ...
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February 2, 2018 By Brian Hughes Crestview, FL — There was lunchtime wait staff with guns at the Crestview McAlister’s Deli Monday, and at the end of the three-hour shift, a trio of Crestview Police officers participating in a Tip-A-Cop fundraiser earned nearly $500 for Special Olympics Florida. Customers kept Officers Wanda Hulion, Sam Kimmons and Terry Mace busy cleaning tables, ...
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