- May 3, 2024
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April 7
Park me in, and I'll steal from you
9:33 a.m. First block of Bannbury Lane. Burglary.
A construction worker parked his car in front of a house on Bannbury Lane while he worked on another home a few doors down.
He was in the yard of the home he was working at when he glanced back at his car and saw a woman leave the house he’d parked in front of, enter his car though the side door — he’d left it unlocked — and walk back inside the house with his red Samsung cell phone.
He contacted the Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy knocked at the door of the home the worker had parked at, and a middle-aged woman that matched the victim's description of the thief answered.
The deputy read her her Miranda rights and asked if she wanted to talk about the incident.
She did: She said she’d gotten angry when the worker parked in front of her home, so she took his cell phone and tried to access his Facebook account.
The cell phone was under a jacket on top of a bookshelf. The deputy arrested the woman on charges of grand theft over $300 and burglary of a car, recovered the phone, and took the woman to the Flagler County jail.
When they arrived, a deputy searched the woman and found a plastic baggy of marijuana in the woman’s bra.
Deputies added a charge of introducing contraband to the jail.
Glass window vs. lug wrench: Window wins
6:26 a.m. 5100 block of State Road 100. Attempted burglary.
An assistant manager at a telecommunications store arrived early to work to hold a store inventory, and noticed that the business’ front door was cracked and two windows were broken.
She was about to call the Sheriff’s Office when a deputy arrived, responding to an alarm call from the broken windows.
The deputy wrote in a report that “the window to the west side of the business, the window to the south side of the business and the front door of the business had been smashed” with an object that left a hexagon-shaped imprint.
But the thief didn’t actually make it in: The windows and doors were made of double-paned glass, and the wannabe-thief got through the outer layer and “pierced part of the inner panes,” according to the deputy’s report, but couldn’t enter.
The store didn’t have exterior surveillance cameras, but the interior camera showed one young man in a hooded sweatshirt lobbing a lug wrench at the door and windows while another stood watch. The footage wasn’t clear enough to show their features.
The incident started at 6:22, the would-be-burglars left at 6:24, and the store employee and deputy arrived at 6:26.
The deputy photographed the damage and uploaded the images into an evidence database, and plans to check with nearby businesses to see if their surveillance videos show clearer footage of the burglars.
April 8
Have you no respect for a King?
6-9 a.m. First block of Old Kings Road. Stolen tag.
A man went into a gym at about 6 a.m. and left his red 2012 Suzuki motorcycle parked outside.
When he got back to the parking lot at about 9 a.m., he realized his license tag — tag number KINGJR, after his last name and title — was gone.
The man went to the Sheriff’s Office location on Cypress Point Parkway and reported the theft, and a deputy entered the tag in a crime database as stolen.
“Loaning” a car to a drug dealer: Not a hot idea
5:12 p.m. First block of Ryker Lane. Stolen vehicle.
A deputy drove out to an R-section house after a man called saying his car was missing.
The man told dispatch that his wife had — without his knowledge or permission — loaned the car to a man, who’d loaned the car to a cousin, who never returned the car.
The husband told the deputy he was in Texas when it happened.
He got a call saying his wife had loaned his car to some guy with the first name “Paul.” The wife didn’t know his last name. When the husband got back from Texas, the car was still gone.
The wife told the deputy that she’d loaned the car to ”Paul” the evening of Saturday, April 5, and that he’d said he’d return it Sunday morning. It was still missing Tuesday.
The deputy asked why she’d loaned the man the car, and she told the deputy she’d loaned it “for a little something,” according to the deputy’s report.
The deputy asked her what she meant by “a little something,” and she said she’d loaned it for drugs, and that she’d made a “huge mistake.”
The car will be listed in a crime database as stolen.
