COPS CORNER: X marks the spot?

Palm Coast Observer
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April 21

X marks the spot?

6:27 a.m. 5500 block of State Road 100. Burglary.
A cafeteria worker at a local high school arrived to the school in the morning and saw that a school office had been broken into. She called her manager, who called the Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies investigating the scene arrived and saw that the glass door had been smashed. A mop handle lay on the floor, and a piece of metal lay beside a safe in the room.

The manager said they weren’t there the day before.

Drawers and a cabinet door were open, but the only thing missing from the room was a $5 in cash from a change cup on the desk.

Deputies were processing that crime scene — which was dusted for fingerprints — when they were told that the school’s ROTC office had been broken into as well, with the same method.

A candy locker in the room was pried open, a total of $120 was missing from two cash boxes, and $255 had been stolen form an envelope in the desk

A key box behind the desk had been rifled through, and staff members weren’t sure if any keys were missing.
Whoever broke in also placed two wood pieces from the window frame in an X pattern on the floor. Deputies weren’t sure if that had any significance.
While deputies were processing that crime scene, they were told that a classroom had been broken into, too.

Nothing was stolen from the classroom.

Deputies didn’t see any signs of forced entry at the school’s exterior doors, but will review the school’s surveillance video to see if the thief was caught on camera.

April 22

Adding insult to injury

9:37 a.m. First block of Farrington Lane. Burglary.
A woman called the Sheriff’s Office, and told deputies that someone broke into her unlocked car sometime between 10 p.m. April 21 and 9 a.m. April 22.

The thief made off with a GPS unit and a gold Coach coin purse containing $150 cash, a debit card and a credit card.

There were scratches on the sides and hood of the car. A term that is, depending on context, either a profanity or a legitimate word for a female canine was scratched into the paint on the driver’s side door.

The deputy checked for fingerprints and photographed the damage to the car.