- April 17, 2024
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April 1
Sticky-fingered handyman?
8:24 a.m. — 100 block of Fenimore Lane
Larceny: A 67-year-old woman told a deputy that a pair of round, cut pink diamond earrings she’d kept in her master bathroom disappeared after she hired a handyman to install new bathroom tile. She said she’d removed all of the other jewelry the night before he came, but forgot to remove the earrings. They were worth $400, and she’d never worn them, she told the deputy. She realized they were gone after the handyman left and she moved the other jewelry back into the bathroom. The woman completed a written statement and the deputy gave her a case number and planned to follow up with the handyman, according to the deputy’s incident report.
Not quite as noxious as anthrax
6:15 p.m.— 100 block of Palm Coast Parkway.
Suspicious Incident: A man told a deputy his wife received an envelope containing a white powdery substance from an unknown person, and that he had the envelope in a clear plastic magazine cover in the front passenger seat of his car. The deputy walked up to the car, looked through the window, and “observed the envelope and observed several indications which made me take caution,” according to the deputy’s report. The address the envelope was mailed to was in the return address spot, the address was typed, there was “an excess amount of postage” on it, the envelope had been in circulation since Jan. 5 and “the postage and stamps were from Bahrain.” The wife told the deputy that “she began to open the envelope, then she realized that she was unaware who or where the envelope was from. That’s when she observed the unusual postage” and “felt the envelope and thought she may have felt sand or a powdery substance inside.” The deputy took the envelope into evidence and told the couple to seek medical care if they began to feel ill, then called St. John’s County Hazmat. A Hazmat team conducted “a battery of tests to determine whether the contents of the envelope were hazardous.” They weren’t: “The only item in the envelope was a Chanel sticker, which through the shipping label, was determined to have been ordered by (the woman),” according to the report.
Checkmate
10:05 p.m. First block of Leanni Way.
Delayed Car Burglary: A man told a deputy that his wife noticed on March 30 that the inside of the couple’s car had been rifled through. At first, he said, his wife didn’t notice anything missing. But then he realized that three checks were gone, and one was cashed for $300 on March 30. The man gave the deputy paperwork from the bank where the check was cashed, and the deputy told him to call if he realized anything else was stolen.
