- April 19, 2024
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Less than two weeks after two stolen Flagler County school buses were recovered near Gainesville, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office detectives on Monday recovered a school bus in Palm Coast that had been reported stolen out of Alachua County.
The bus was being rented by Palm Harbor Academy for transportation of students to and from school. Detectives received information that the private school was renting buses from Jacksonville-based 95 South Tours and Transportation. A check of two of the buses revealed one had been reported stolen.
The stolen bus was towed from the school site and will be returned to the Alachua County School District. The Palm Coast school had been renting the bus, and the company was paying for maintenance, gas and the driver.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested Alphoso Bernard Rock, owner of 95 South Tours and Transportation, Aug. 4, on charges of theft of a motor vehicle less than $100,000.
A statewide investigation was launched several months ago when school districts in Florida and Georgia began reporting the thefts of school buses. Locally, the school district reported two All American school buses were discovered missing from the bus garage on Aug. 8. Those buses were recovered near I-75 in Gainesville, along with buses previously reported stolen from around Florida and Georgia.
