- May 15, 2024
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April 22
That’s not just a bit of cable
8:25 p.m. Belle Terre Parkway and Palm Coast Parkway S.W. Narcotics.
A deputy on patrol noticed a pickup truck with a broken tag light.
The deputy activated the lights on his patrol car and illuminated the cab of the truck with a spotlight, and saw the driver throw something white out of the window.
He stopped the truck and picked up the object the driver had tossed.
It was a piece of white coax cable fashioned into a pipe, and it smelled of burnt marijuana, the deputy wrote in a report.
The deputy called for a K-9 handler and drug-sniffing dog and wrote the driver, a 25-year-old man, citations for the broken tag light and for failing to change his address on his driver’s license.
The dog handler arrived and was about to walk the dog around the outside of the car when the driver said, “I’ll be honest, I have some bud in my pocket.”
Deputies found 0.4 grams of marijuana in a Grizzly chewing tobacco can.
The deputies issued the driver a notice to appear for possession of marijuana under 20 grams and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Speeding toward trouble
8:11 p.m. Belle Terre Boulevard and Laguna Forest Trail. Narcotics, DUI.
A deputy was driving south on Belle Terre Boulevard when a car passed him heading the other direction, in the northbound lanes, going 77 mph in a 50 mph zone and speeding around other cars without using a turn signal.
The deputy turned around, caught up to the car, and stopped it at the intersection of Belle Terre Boulevard and State Road 100.
The 37-year-old driver gave the deputy his name — and the deputy confirmed it by checking a database — but said he didn’t have his driver’s license, registration or proof of insurance.
The man’s speech was slurred, and when a deputy conducted sobriety tests, he failed them.
Deputies placed him in a patrol car and took him to the Flagler County jail on a DUI charge, and it was only after they got there that they realized they’d missed something: A deputy doing an inventory of the man’s car found a marijuana roach behind the back seat.
Deputies added a charge of marijuana possession to the DUI charge.
April 26
‘By the way, Officer, there’s some pot in my backpack’
10:30 p.m. 1200 block of Palm Harbor Parkway. Narcotics.
A deputy stopped a bicycle that didn’t have proper lights for night riding.
The 18-year-old cyclist was “very compliant” with the stop, the deputy wrote, and let the deputy search his backpack when asked.
He even told the deputy he had some “bud” in the pack as he handed it over.
The deputy found a plastic container holding 1.1 grams of marijuana, and issued the cyclist a notice to appear.
April 27
Generating some crime
1:42 a.m. First block of Clarendon Court. Burglary.
A woman called the Sheriff’s Office after realizing that someone had broken her shed and stolen an $800 generator and a $250 weed eater.
She told deputies she had been outside troubleshooting some pool equipment earlier in the evening, and her son arrived to help her.
When she went to meet him and they walked back toward the south side of the house, she noticed a shop vacuum sitting in the grass near the storage shed and found the shed’s padlock lying on the ground.
Bags of fertilizer had been shifted around, and a tool kit lay open.
The woman told deputies the shed padlock on the shed had not been locked, and that she’d recently had a young man out to do some yard work on her property.
Deputies searched a crime database and found a record on a man who fit the description the woman provided, and who had a previous larceny charge.
They had not found him by the time they completed their incident report Sunday.
