The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is working to locate a

man who went to a home on Highland Hills Road in Crestview and

pretended to be an officer with the Crestview Police Department.

The female victim says she first got a phone call the evening of

July 9th from an individual claiming to be from the Crestview

Police Department. The man on the phone told her that her

husband had been killed in a traffic crash. A short time later, a

white male came to her home wearing black pants, a white shirt

with a silver badge, and police style hat. He said he was with that

agency and that her husband had been killed in a car wreck.

She says the individual left in an apple green Chevrolet minivan

with dark windows, chrome spinning hubcaps, and a torn right

front mud flap.  The distraught woman called her daughter, who

called her father’s workplace and learned he was alive and well.

Impersonating a law enforcement officer is a third degree felony.

Investigators say there are no known suspects at this time.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Okaloosa County

Sheriff’s Office at 850-651-7400 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers

at 850-863-TIPS.