Neither driver was identified.
Law officers cordoned off the crash site and directed motorists away from the area, and were still at the scene at 4 a.m., according to the FHP.
At that time a Walton County sheriff s deputy was sitting in his vehicle with its lights activated at the corner of U.S. 331 and Bay Magnolia Lane when he saw a pickup truck heading north in the outside lane. The truck crashed through traffic cones and struck the deputy s vehicle as he scrambled out, the FHP reported.
The deputy suffered minor injuries.
The truck s driver, a 33-year-old man from Freeport, was charged with DUI, the FHP said.
When they attempted to conduct a traffic stop, Wilson reportedly sped up and drove off the road to pass other cars on the right shoulder. He then headed into a neighborhood off Roberts Boulevard.
Deputies found his vehicle partially concealed at the rear of a home on Cardinal Street. According to the release, a woman flagged down a deputy to say a man had just entered her house uninvited, OCSO reported.
Deputies surrounded the home and repeatedly ordered Wilson to come out during about a 15-minute period. When they breached the front door, Wilson surrendered and was taken into custody.
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SHALIMAR Two Shalimar roommates have been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff s Office news release.
Weston Paul Jines, 21, and Jacob Michael Rush, 22, were arrested following the execution of a search warrant at their Fawn Lane home on Feb. 26.
The investigation was initiated by the Sheriff s Office Internet Crimes Against Children unit after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children sent the OCSO a tip about Jines possibly uploading a video containing child sexual abuse to a Google-maintained server, according to an arrest report.
Investigators obtained a search warrant for Jines home and subsequently located files containing more than 20 images and videos of child pornography, the arrest report said.
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Editor s note: An earlier version of this story misidentified the gender of the deceased.
BAKER A 9-year-old boy was killed and five other people, including three young children, were critically or seriously injured in a head-on collision on State Road 4 on Monday evening, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release.
The crash occurred about 6:25 p.m. near Keyser Mill Road southeast of Baker.
A red Subaru SUV occupied by a 39-year-old woman and four children, all from Evergreen, Alabama, was traveling east on SR 4 as a gray Kia SUV driven by a Baker woman of an unspecified age was approaching from the opposite direction, the FHP reported.
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SANTA ROSA BEACH An 88-year-old man from Santa Rosa Beach suffered critical injuries Friday afternoon when his car collided with a trailer being towed by a pickup truck on Chat Holley Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The man was driving a silver sedan west on Chat Holley near South Third Street at 4:19 p.m. when he crossed the center line as the eastbound Chevrolet pickup was approaching, the FHP reported.
The car struck a dump trailer being towed by the pickup. The truck then veered onto the south shoulder and the trailer overturned onto its right side. The sedan stopped in the west lane facing southeast, the FHP said.