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June 26
Where’d you get those peepers?
6:06 p.m. First block of Cypress Branch Way. Larceny.
An employee at an eyeglass store thought something was off when she saw a suspicious-looking man hanging around one of the store’s display cases, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
She asked him who he was and what he was doing. He said his name was Carter, and that he was waiting for a pair of prescription eyeglasses.
Soon after, though, the man walked out of the store, and when the employee went over to the display case where he had been standing, two pairs of Gucci glasses and two pairs of Maui Jim’s glasses were missing.
Altogether, the four missing glasses were worth about $1,200.
It turned out there had been no pending prescription for anyone named Carter. The employee called the Sheriff’s Office.
There was no video surveillance of the suspect.
Less-than-neighborly conduct?
9:58 a.m. Intersection of Palm Coast Parkway and Interstate 95.
A local man was driving on west on Palm Coast Parkway when the rear passenger wheel and tire fell off of his van.
It was the latest in a string of dangerous car problems caused by vandals who’d snuck onto his Campbell Court property at night and, at various points, drilled holes into the van’s gas tank and damaged the sidewalls of two of his van tires and both tires on his utility trailer. The damaged tires blew out on the road, and he replaced them all.
The incident June 26 sheared off three of the five wheel studs and damaged the tire, brake drum, exhaust and lower fender flares. The remaining two wheel studs were missing lug nuts, and the man suggested to a deputy who arrived at the scene that the vandal may have loosened the lugs to cause the accident.
The man suspected a neighbor was the vandal. Each time they’d argued, he told the deputy, someone damaged his van.
The latest dispute, he said, was a few days ago, when he had argument with the neighbor because the neighbor’s son was driving recklessly down the street on his motorcycle.
The man requested an extra watch on his house and planned to install video surveillance of the property, according to the report.
June 28
In the doghouse
8:36 a.m. 6200 block of Cherry Lane, Bunnell. Animal problem.
A man called the Sheriff’s Office saying his pit bull mix dog had “gone crazy” and attacked, forcing him to barricade himself inside a shed, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
He was still stuck there — with the “very aggressive medium-sized black in color pit bull mix attempting to gain entry,” according to the report — when deputies arrived.
Then he dog turned toward the deputies, and “made multiple attempts to attack us running at us barking and growling showing its teeth,” according to the report.
The deputies used pepper spray on the dog several times before it ran back into a cage on the man’s porch, where they were able to lock it in.
The man, once released from the shed, told the deputies “stated the dog went crazy trying to get to another animal in the shed,” and that it “ripped through multiple items trying to gain entry into the shed and would not stop attacking,” according to the report.
The man and the dog were not injured, and the man gave the dog to county animal control after the attack.
June 29
Umm, I think you forgot something ...
1:40 a.m. Intersection of Palm Coast Parkway NW and Brushwood Lane. Noncriminal.
Deputies drove out to the intersection of Palm Coast Parkway NW and Brushwood Lane after callers reported a naked man standing at the intersection.
When they arrived, the young man was nude from the waist down. A pile of clothes sat at the edge of the roadway.
When deputies tried to get the man into a patrol car, he was “uncooperative’ and “made several statements that did not seem to make sense and would not provide his information,” according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
The man refused medical treatment, but “continued to make unusual statements and appeared to be disoriented,” so deputies treated the case as a Baker Act and took the man to a hospital, where he provided his name and his age — 25 — and said he had consumed alcohol and taken LSD.
