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July 23
Didn't expect you home so early ...
2:55 a.m. First block of Front Street. Burglary.
A Palm Coast woman was asleep in bed late at night when she heard someone walk into the bedroom.
She was supposed to be alone.
She screamed at the intruder that she was armed, and the person said, “S--t!” and ran out of the room.
The woman locked herself in the room and called the Sheriff’s Office, unsure whether the person had fled or was still somewhere inside the house.
Deputies arrived, established a perimeter, and searched the area with a police dog.
They found a window on the north side of the house open, with its screen lying on the ground. Unsure if the intruder was still inside, two deputies climbed in through the open window and searched the home
They didn’t find anyone. All of the doors to the house were still closed and locked. All doors to the residence were still closed and locked.
A deputy spoke with the woman, and she said she had been out of town with her family, but returned earlier than she’d planned.
She couldn’t describe the person who’d walked into her bedroom — it was too dark — but thought the voice was male.
A deputy checking the house found a door and a cabinet open, and the woman said they had been closed when she went to sleep.
She told deputy’s that the room the intruder entered through was her brother's, and that he often leaves the window open when he smokes cigarettes.
A deputy checked the window frame and locking mechanism, and it was undamaged, as if it had been left unlocked.
The woman told deputies she hadn’t told anyone she was leaving town, but her brother, reached by phone, said he had mentioned the planned trip to a neighbor — a teenage girl.
The woman said she knew where the girl lived, and that the teen often had a boyfriend over.
Several of the following paragraphs in the deputy’s report are redacted, as is often the case when deputies are reporting on interactions with minors.
They gave the woman a case card, advised her of their findings, and asked her to have the rest of the family contact the Sheriff’s Office when they returned from their trip.

Bad place to leave your keys
8:51 a.m. First block of Florida Park Drive. Stolen vehicle.
A man left his wife’s 2005 gray Infiniti in the driveway, the keys in the cup holder and the car unlocked the night of July 22 while he visited his parents at a house next door.
When he walked back over to his home, the car was there; when he got up the next morning, it was gone.
He and his wife called the Sheriff’s Office.
They told a deputy that the car has scratches on the driver’s side door and paint missing on the front bumper on the driver’s side, but no unique features.
The deputy documented the scene with a body-worn camera, canvassed the neighborhood, and entered the car’s information into a crime database as stolen.
