- April 26, 2024
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Sheriff’s deputies are looking for someone who broke into PC Bike Feb. 6.
A Flagler County Sheriff’s Office sergeant knew something was up when he saw that the glass door of PC Bike on Palm Coast Parkway was smashed out.
A foot-wide, roughly 30-pound rock sat just inside the door, and two bikes were knocked over.
It didn’t look like anything was missing, but a black and orange Iron Horse cycle, missing its tires, leaned against a concrete column in front of the shop, and two flat bike tires, a black plastic crate and two Walmart bags holding a water bottle holder leaned against the window, according to a Sheriff’s Office case report.
The sergeant contacted PC Bike co-owner James Clayton, who headed out to the shop and confirmed that nothing was missing. The bike and tires in front of the shop weren’t his, he said.
A deputy investigating the crime spoke to two employees of a 7-11 convenience store in the same shopping plaza. They said that sometime between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. the night before, a man in his mid-30s to early-40s with a scruffy beard walked in with a torn page of the Palm Coast Observer with an ad for PC Bike, and asked where it was.
They found the man suspicious and told him they didn’t know where it was.
He had a bike with him, with a black crate fastened to the back and two white Walmart bags in the crate.
The deputy also spoke with a local transient who hangs out in the area. The man said he’d cycled past the shop at about 4:30 a.m. and didn’t see the shattered window or notice anyone who looked suspicious.
Deputies are still searching for the would-be thief.
