- April 25, 2024
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Aug. 1
Pelleted
9:23 p.m. First block of Medical Memorial Parkway. Noncriminal.
A Sheriff’s deputy drove out to a local hospital Aug. 1 about a report of a shooting — with a pellet gun.
The victim, a 19-year-old, said he had taken the pellet gun out of the trunk of his car, which was parked in the swale of his girlfriend’s mother’s house, when he dropped it. It went off, and the pellet struck his middle finger near the middle knuckle, passing through the skin.
He drove to the hospital.
The deputy asked if anyone else was at the house when it happened, and the man said his girlfriend’s mother was. The deputy sent a local unit to the house to verify the story, but the girlfriend’s mother drove out to the hospital and explained the pellet gun shooting the same way.
Aug. 3
Quenching his thirst for crime
1:36 p.m. 1000 block of Lake Disston Drive. Burglary.
A thief that broke into a Bunnell home August third made off with a $300 TV and a bowl of $25 in change, but must not have been in too much of a hurry: He grabbed a liter bottle of Sprite from the home’s fridge and left it sitting on the bed in the master bedroom.
The homeowner had only been gone from morning to afternoon. He left the house at about 9:30 a.m. and discovered the crime when he returned at about 1:30 p.m., according to a deputy’s report.
He new something was wrong even before he got inside, because a chair on his deck was out of place.
When he got inside, it was clear that the thief had searched the home thoroughly: drawers had been opened, bookshelves rifled though.
He told a deputy that he had locked himself out of the house a couple of weeks before, and smashed out a window to get in. He hadn’t repaired it yet. He suspected that was how the burglar entered.
The deputy canvassed the area, but no one said they saw anything suspicious that day.
