- May 8, 2024
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July 1
Illegal ‘recycling’
11:17 a.m. First block of Cypress Point Parkway.
Use of fraudulently obtained receipt: Managers at a local big box store thought something was fishy when they saw a young man sifting through the trash in the cans outside the store’s entrance, collecting discarded receipts. The man entered the store — watched by the store’s security personnel — picked a baseball bat off a shelf, then walked over to customer service, showed the receipt, “returned” the bat, and was given $16.02 in cash. A security employee and a store manager stopped the man after he walked out of the store, and deputies arrested him.
July 2
Fried chicken
8:50 p.m. First block of Shady Lane.
Criminal mischief: Someone tried to burn down a 71-year-old Palm Coast woman’s chicken coop, the woman’s daughter told deputies. The daughter said she was at her mother’s home and noticed a fire burning on the outside of the coop at about 8 p.m. It was small and hadn’t caused much damage, and she put it out. But someone who lived nearby had threatened to kill the chickens before, she told a deputy, and the fence to the yard had been cut open. The deputy noted the cut fence and a slight odor that may have been from an accelerant, but wrote in a case report that it wasn’t clear if the fire had been set intentionally, or if it may have been caused by lightning.
July 5
Just wanted to hang out
7:40 p.m. First block of Burning Place.
Grand theft: Deputies arrested a 43-year-old Palm Coast man on charges of grand theft for stealing a hammock out of his neighbor’s back yard. The victim told deputies that after he noticed the $300 tan-and-white-striped hammock missing, he checked his surveillance video, which recorded the neighbor stealing the hammock. A deputy viewed the video and confirmed that the person shown stealing the hammock appeared to be the neighbor, then arrested him.
Flip flops and a handgun
5:49 p.m. First block of Barrington Drive.
Assault and battery: A 23-year-old Palm Cast man was driving north on Belle Terre Parkway near Pine Lakes Parkway when he saw a Silver Saturn cutting off other cars. When the Saturn cut him off, he yelled at the car’s driver, then turned on Barrington Drive. The other car turned as well. Both drivers got out of their cars, and the Saturn driver — a balding, shirtless man wearing tan shorts and flip flops — punched the 23-year-old in the face and then said, “I have this” while pulling a black firearm from his waistband, the victim told a Sheriff’s Office deputy. The armed man drove off, heading east on Barrington, as the victim asked a local resident to call law enforcement. A deputy investigating the case wasn’t able to find the Saturn.
