- April 20, 2024
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UPDATE:
Coby Queen was found Aug. 17 and is being returned to his family, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A 16-year-old Palm Coast boy left home on his bicycle Aug. 9 and has not been seen by his mother since.
Coby Allan Queen was last seen by his mother, Laurie Stone, in the morning Aug. 9 when she left their home at 4 Smith Trail to go to work. The teen was still asleep. When she got home at about 3:30 p.m., the boy was gone, and his 9-year-old sister said he’d let the house on his bike at about 1 p.m.
Stone filled out a missing persons form on Queen, telling Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies that the 16-year-old likes to hang out at the Flagler Beach pier and at the McDonalds in Town Center.
A Flagler Beach Police Department officer checked the pier and found the teen’s bicycle and backpack beneath it.
A Sheriff's Office deputy checked the Town Center McDonalds and found some of the teen’s friends, one of whom said he’d seen Queen with 21-year-old Josh LeMaster at the pier at about 6 p.m. LeMaster has an arrest record in Flagler County that includes charges for shoplifting, burglary and carrying a concealed weapon.
Stone told deputies that she had no reason to believe Queen was in danger. Still, she gathered a group of the teen's friends at Central Park in Town Center to film a video urging him to come home, and distributed a flier to the local press with his picture, asking anyone who sees the teen to not try to talk to him, and to call the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office at 386-313-4911 in reference to case 16-71793, or, in Volusia County, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office at 386-248-1777.
