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Aug. 11
Checks didn’t check out
11:12 a.m. 100 block of Palm Coast Parkway SW. Fraud.
Three women — a 36-year-old, a 21-year-old and a 31-year-old — walked into a check-cashing business Aug. 4, two with payroll checks for a big-box store on State Road 100 and another with a payroll check from a local pharmacy.
An employee collected all three of the women’s identification cards, phone number and addresses, and cashed the checks from the big-box store — one for $619.55 and the other for $622.42. But when she went to cash the $593.23 check from the pharmacy, it “came back as altered,” according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office report.
Four days later, on Aug. 8, she got a statement from the big box store’s bank saying that both checks were being returned for being altered.
A deputy investigating the fraud discovered that he two women who had brought them in had never worked at the store. At the time the deputy wrote up a case report, it was not known if the woman with the pharmacy check had ever worked at the pharmacy.
Charges against all three women are pending as detectives investigate the crime, according to the report.
No free ride here
3:49 a.m. First block of Clubhouse Drive. Car burglary.
A 37-year-old woman called the Sheriff’s Office after she walked outside to go to work and saw someone sitting in the driver’s seat of her Dodge Avenger.
The woman “made contact” with the person, according to a deputy’s report, and “the male fled the scene on foot leaving his bicycle behind.”
A deputy alerted other law enforcement officers of the suspect’s description, but no one found him.
The suspect’s bicycle, and photographs of the crime scene, were entered into evidence. Nothing was stolen from the car, according to the report.
Aug. 12
'Hey, it was just a mailbox ...'
9:57 p.m., Seminole Woods Boulevard near Universal Trail. DUI.
A deputy was on the way to a disturbance in the Seminole Woods area when he saw a blue BMW heading southbound in the northbound lanes of Seminole Woods Boulevard.
The deputy, in the southbound lanes, tried to catch up as cars in the wrong-way car’s path slowed down to avoid a crash, according to the deputy’s report.
When the deputy pulled the car over, the driver, a 54-year-old woman, said he had recently had surgery and was driving to the hospital. It was the opposite direction from the way she was going.
During the traffic stop, a call came in from a woman who said a blue BMW ran over her mailbox on Sloganeer Trail and kept going.
The deputy asked the driver he’d pulled over if she’d hit a mailbox. Her reply is redacted in the report. The deputy then asked her why she’d left the scene of an accident, and she said she wanted to go to the hospital.
The more the deputy spoke with the woman, the more it “became apparent that she was under the influence of some type of substance,” according to the report.
The deputy asked her if she was on medications for her surgery, and she said she was.
But she also smelled of alcohol, the deputy wrote, and was acting belligerent.
The deputy repeatedly asked her to go to a safe place for field sobriety tests — the area they were in was dark and had no shoulder — but she refused.
He placed her under arrest on charges of leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and refusal of field sobriety exercises, according to the report.
