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Thursday, Feb. 20
Window vs. brick: Window wins
3:39 p.m., 800 block of Belle Terre Parkway. Criminal mischief.
A local pizzeria employee was taking an order at a table near the restaurant’s front window when a young man walked up from the sidewalk and chucked a brick at the window.
If the miscreant brick-thrower expected a "bang!" and a dramatic shower of glass, he was disappointed: The window didn’t break. The brick did.
The brick thrower, though, didn’t run off. Instead, he walked a couple of stores away from the pizzeria and stood there, swearing at the employee and daring him to fight.
And he was still there when a Sheriff’s deputy arrived.
He told the deputy that he “was not feeling good” and thought “doing something bad would make me feel better.”
A deputy took the brick-thrower into custody for criminal mischief.
Sunday, Feb 23.
TV-dropping suspect dropped off at county jail
1:17 p.m., Second block of Cypress Point Parkway. Shoplifting.
An asset-protection officer at a local big-box store thought something was up when he noticed two men walking around the store pulling on secured TV sets and computers, trying to remove them from their restraints.
He recognized the younger of the two men from a theft about a year ago. The older man was using one of the store’s motorized scooters.
Neither of the men seemed to have any luck pulling TVs and computers out of their restraints, and they split up.
But then the younger man managed to pull the security device off a $648 50-inch Vizio TV.
He grabbed it and walked to the self-check-out line, chatted with someone on his phone, and walked out without paying.
The officer followed him out and stopped him, and the man dropped the TV and took off running. He hopped into a blue and tan Subaru hatchback with Virginia plates — driven by the older man, who deputies later determined was his father — and the car sped off as the officer noted the plate number.
The officer gave a statement to Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies, who traced the car to a Volusia County address and contacted the Volusia County Sheriff’s office, where deputies said they were familiar with the suspects and said the driver was known to steal from department stores.
Port Orange police officers spotted the car and stopped it then took the driver, the young man who’d dropped the TV, to the police station, where a Flagler County deputy questioned him.
Before the deputy began reading him his Miranda warnings, the young man said the deputy must be there to pick him up about the TV.
He was read his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with the Flagler County Deputy without representation.
Deputies arrested him on grand theft shoplifting charges, and took him to the Volusia County jail.
A weighty issue
10:23 p.m. First block of Woodcedar Lane. Burglary.
Somebody broke into a Palm Coast man’s home and stole 313 pounds of weightlifting equipment, valued at about $765.
The victim wasn’t sure exactly when the theft happened. He thought it was probably sometime between Thursday and Sunday.
He thought it must have been during the daytime, since he doesn’t leave his garage door open at night.
A deputy investigating the case didn’t find any sings of forced entry, or any evidence to process.
The loot includes an 85-pound dumbbell set, a 50-pound dumbbell set, a 45-pound dumbbell set, a 25-pound dumbbell set, a 20-pound dumbbell set, an 11-pound iron plate, two 22-pound iron plates, a 33-pound iron plate and an Olympic bar.
