- April 28, 2024
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Aug. 23
Cold, hard cash, anyone?
1:37 p.m. 3500 block of Old Kings Road N. Larceny.
A 31-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were at a local high school for a sporting event, sitting up in the bleachers with their Igloo cooler.
They decided to walk down to the field, and left the cooler up in the stands.
When they got back, they told deputies, it was gone — along with the woman’s two bank cards and her Social Security card, which she’d left inside it.
The couple asked the people sitting nearby if they’d seen it, but nobody had.
They had an announcement made, but no one came forward with the cooler.
A deputy wrote in a report on the case that there are no suspects in the crime.
Getting burned
10:29 p.m. 3100 block of North Old Dixie Highway, Bunnell. Burglary.
Flagler County dispatch told a deputy that a burglary was in progress, and the suspect was running south on Old Dixie Highway.
The deputy drove to the area and searched for the thief, but didn’t find him.
So he went to the victims’ home.
A 26-year-old man opened the door. He “was coughing and his eyes were red and watery,” according to the deputy’s report, and there were scratches on his chest and left arm.
He told the deputy he’d been at home with his girlfriend when he heard a sound on his front porch.
He’d already reported several cases of a man trespassing on his enclosed porch, so this time, he grabbed his pepper spray before he went outside.
When he did, “he saw (the man) peek his head around the wall … and he then administered a stream of the spray.”
He told deputies “there was a brief scuffle as the male attempted to exit the enclosed porch, causing the scratches to his arm and chest.”
There was no lighting on the porch, and he couldn’t see the man well enough to give deputies a detailed description.
Deputies advised him to get a deadbolt for his door and invest an alarm system.
Aug. 24
Oops …
4:06 a.m. First block of Island Estates Parkway. Weapons complaint.
It’s not every day that someone who’s just done something “stupid” — their word, not ours — decides to report it to the local Sheriff’s Office.
But a Palm Coast woman did.
She called the Sheriff’s Office at about 4 a.m. Aug. 24. She said the power had been out in her neighborhood, it was dark, she was drinking, and she got scared.
So, she told deputies, according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report, she “did something ‘stupid’ by grabbing a firearm from her bedroom, going out onto her back porch, and firing the weapon in the air.”
She then thought about what she’d done for one or two hours, and decided to call the Sheriff’s Office.
The deputy that drove out to her home wrote in his report that “(the woman) advised me several times that she was not as intoxicated at the time she fired the weapon as she was at the time I arrived on scene.”
He asked her if she’d hand over the gun, a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver, for safekeeping. She did, and also surrendered a shotgun and another handgun.
Deputies canvased the area, and found no one injured or property damaged from the falling bullet. The woman did not have a criminal history.
The deputies told her she could retrieve the firearms at the Sheriff’s Office during regular business hours.
