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Thursday, March 13
Sleepless in Bunnell
8 a.m. County Road 75. Missing person.
A 14-year-old Bunnell boy decided he’d follow love anywhere — even across state lines, even without telling his parents, and even if he’d never actually met the girl he was running off with.
The teen disappeared early Thursday morning, and his parents called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office at about 8 a.m., according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office report.
They told deputies their son usually didn’t leave home without permission. But the mother also told deputies her son had used her phone to text with a girl, and a deputy began tracing the number, according got the report.
A deputy checked around the outside of the house for the teen, then stopped by local convenience stores to see if he’d turned up there. No luck.
FireFlight, the county’s emergency operations helicopter, searched for the boy from the air, but couldn’t find him. Neither could deputies searching the area with all-terrain motorcycles. Neither could bloodhounds brought in from the Tomoka Correctional Institution.
Finally, the teen turned up — and not alone — about 200 miles away, in Liberty City, Ga.
He was with the 15-year-old girl he’d been texting with, who he’d met on the internet.
It turns out that though the boy had run off, he hadn’t done it on foot.
He’d had a ride provided by the girl, who’d taken her parents’ car without permission and driven all the way from Anderson, S.C. down to Florida to pick him up, according to the report.
On their way north, the two had stopped at Ripley’s Believe It or Not to ask an acquaintance of the boy’s father for gas money, begging him not to tell the boy’s father.
Law enforcement officers in Georgia stayed with the teens as their parents came to pick them up.
Don’t mind the pot, Officer
9:49 p.m. First block of Pine Hill Lane. Narcotics.
A deputy stopped a car for driving at night without its headlights on.
An 18-year-old in the rear left seat asked if he could get out of the car to smoke a cigarette during the traffic stop.
The deputy told him he coulld.
But as the young man stood up to get out of the car, a nickel-sized wad of marijuana fell onto the ground at his feet.
Deputies also found loose pieces of pot in his pocket and on the seat of the car where he’s been sitting.
The arrested him for possession of marijuana.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … vanished
7:32 p.m. Richfield Lane. 911 call.
A woman called 911 Thursday to report that she saw a plane with its wing on fire heading toward the Flagler County airport.
She stayed on the line while the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office dispatched deputies to the airport.
But the airport’s tower had no information on an aircraft emergency, and deputies saw no burning aircraft. They determined the call was “unfounded,” according to an incident report.
Saturday, March 15
No, Officer, you can't search my marijuana-laden car
11:02 a.m. Pine Lake Parkway and Commerce Boulevard. Narcotics.
A deputy stopped a white Ford Explorer for speeding.
He asked for permission to search the car, but the driver wouldn’t consent to a search.
So the deputy walked his police dog around the outside of the car, and the dog “indicated a positive hit for possible narcotics,” according to an arrest report.
The deputy and another deputy searched the car, and found a glass jar of marijuana and a digital scale with marijuana residue under one of the seats.
The pot weighed 34.9 grams.
The deputies arrested the driver for possession of drug paraphernalia and more than 20 grams of marijuana.
Purse on car seat + open car window = bad idea
5:09 p.m. 5000 block of State Road 100. Theft.
A woman called the Sheriff’s Office to say someone stole her credit card.
She said she’d left her Coach purse sitting on the front seat of her Kia while she shopped at a local department store.
Her daughter, who sits in the back seat, had left a rear window slightly open.
When the woman got back to the car, the back window was rolled almost all the way down, though she “didn’t think anything of it at the time.”
She got in the car to leave, then realized the contents of her purse had been strewn all over the backseat and floorboard.
A credit card was missing.
The woman’s husband contacted the card company and discovered someone used th card at a gas station on State Road 100.
Deputies went to the gas station to view surveillance video, but the manger who knows how to use the cameras wasn’t there, so they planned to return later.
There was no damage to the Kia, and the card was the only thing stolen.
