- April 18, 2024
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Flagler Palm Coast High School junior Matthew Wright, 18, was in class Thursday when deputies showed up at his classroom, escorted him to a patrol car and arrested him on numerous warrants for theft, grand theft and motor vehicle theft, during what Sheriff's Office reports call a “crime spree” last month.
Deputies also arrested Wright’s friend — and, deputies said, his partner in crime — Danquelle Nash, also 18.
The teens have been arrested before. Last month, according to reports from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, they led deputies on a wild early-morning chase through a Palm Coast neighborhood.
It started when one of the teens tried to break down the doors of a home on Riverina Drive. A woman inside the house was in the shower when she heard banging on the front door. She went to the front of the house to look out the window and saw Nash kicking the front door, according to the Sheriff’s Office report.
When the door didn’t buckle, Nash walked towards a white BMW sport utility vehicle parked in the driveway and driven by Wright, and the two teens walked back toward the house together.
The resident screamed for them to leave, and they ran.
Deputies were interviewing the woman when one of them saw a white BMW SUV turn on the street. The deputies took off after the car, which barreled through the R-section at up to 70 mph.
Deputies lost the teens but caught them later on foot near the woodline by White View Lane.
The teens were arrested then in connection to crimes including an attempted break-in at a gun store on St. Joe Plaza Drive and the theft of a 2006 Chrysler Pacifica, a 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser and an $800, 50-inch TV.
The teens were released briefly while detectives built their case. Wright was arrested in class Thursday because detectives knew he was there and thought he might flee if they didn’t pick him up immediately, according to the reports.
Deputies charged Wright with five counts of burglary, three counts of grand theft, two counts of attempted burglary and one count each of possession of burglary tools, petit theft and felony fleeing and eluding. He is being held at the Flagler County jail, and his bond was set at a total of $16,750, according to jail records.
Nash has been charged with five counts of burglary, four counts of grand theft, two counts of attempted burglary and one count each of possession of burglary tools, robbery and resisting arrest without violence. He is being held at he Flagler County jail. His bond has been set at $44,500.
