Law Enforcement Arrest Suspect For Stolen Car After 47th Street Lockdown in Niceville

In Brief:

•🧍 Who: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Niceville Police, and a vehicle theft suspect

•🚓 What: Arrest following a vehicle theft, car chase, and foot pursuit

•🕘 When: Monday morning

•📍 Where: Intersection of 47th Street and Fir Avenue, Niceville

•❓ Why: To apprehend a suspect driving a stolen vehicle and fleeing law enforcement.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of the man they arrested in relation to the incident this morning near 47th and Fir Street in Niceville.

Travis Dale Anderson, of Baker, was booked into the Okaloosa County Jail in Crestview on charges of grand theft, loitering or prowling, and reckless driving.

Anderson, 40, has a felony criminal record that began in 2005 – when he pleaded no contest to DUI, fleeing and eluding law enforcement and Marijuana possession. In the intervening years, Anderson has been arrested for and charged with resisting an officer with violence, multiple counts of possession of small amounts of marijuana, writing hot checks, battery, domestic violence, fraud and attempting to conceal his identity to a law enforcement officer.

So far in 2024, he has been charged with driving with a suspended or revoked license, improperly attaching a license plate, improper vehicle registration, operating a motorcycle without a proper endorsement, lacking proof of insurance and driving a motor vehicle without a seatbelt.

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Niceville PD, Okaloosa Deputies Arrest Suspect For Stolen Car After 47th Street Lockdown

Remember that old trap house on 47th and Fir that got knocked down after it was foreclosed on?

Well, it seems that the road near the home has not seen an end to criminal activity that gets the community buzzing.

Okaloosa Sheriff’s Deputies and Niceville Police arrested a suspect for stealing a vehicle near the home Monday morning – after he fled on foot near the intersection of 47th Street and Fir Avenue.

Nicole Wagner, an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office representative, says law enforcement began to track the driver and the stolen vehicle as they headed south on SR-285. “We worked with Niceville PD to follow the vehicle,” Wagner said, “When the vehicle stopped in the area of 47th street, the driver then fled on foot, but has been detained.”

The chase and sealing off the perimeter of the home stirred up a hornet’s nest on social media, where many people discussed what might have happened in the area.

Over the last couple of years, the area had seen more than its share of illegal drug activity. 129 calls to law enforcement calls were made to the area in a five-year period.

Eventually, Okaloosa County’s Board of County Commissioners foreclosed the home using county ordinances and sold it at auction to a homebuilder in the area.

This is a developing story and we will update it as we get more information.