- May 15, 2024
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May 15
Burglar alarms local business owners
4:41 a.m. 5000 block of Palm Coast Parkway N.W. Commercial burglary.
A deputy responded to an alarm call from a local appliance store and found the shop’s front window smashed. The front door to the building was still locked.
The deputy called for backup and looked for movement around the building, but didn’t find anything except two cement blocks that, it appeared, were used to shatter the window.
Dispatch called the business’ emergency contact, who showed up, notified the shop’s owner, and said he’d get surveillance video for that night from a manager.
The emergency contact said he’d locked the shop up the previous night and set the alarm. A manual cash register holding about $200 was the only thing that seemed to be missing, he told deputies.
A nearby restaurant was also broken into.
Digging yourself in deeper
2:25 p.m. Old Kings Road and Fleetwood Drive. Police vehicle damage.
A deputy responding to a crash at Old Kings Road and Fleetwood Drive pulled onto the side of the road behind three other vehicles.
The last of the three was disabled. The deputy activated the patrol car’s emergency lights.
But heavy rain fell and made a puddle of the grassy area the deputy had parked in, and when he tried to move the car, it wouldn’t budge. There was no traction.
A towing company came and tried to pull the patrol car out of the puddle.
But the tow truck operator placed the winch around the top of the deputy’s bumper to move the car.
As he dragged the car off the grass, he also dragged the bumper about an inch-and-a-half off the car, and the towing chain dented the top of the patrol car’s push bar.
May 17
Scammer tires of carrot, tries stick
1:49 p.m. First block of Edith Pope Drive. Harassing phone calls.
The calls seemed silly enough at first: ‘Have your wife send us $500,’ the caller said, ‘and you will receive a grand prize of $1 million.’
The caller ID placed the calls’ origin in Kingston, Jamaica, and the man receiving them in Palm Coast didn’t take them seriously, according to a Sheriff’s Office report — until the calls got serious.
The man called the Sheriff’s Office the afternoon of May 17 after arriving home and checking his message machine to find a message from the Jamaica caller.
The caller said he would come to the man’s Edith Pope Drive house and kill his mother.
The man wasn’t didn’t remember the individual numbers the calls came from.
Deputies uploaded the recording to an evidence database, but have no leads.
May 18
The grass isn’t greener in jail
8:50 p.m. First block of Wellshire Lane. Criminal mischief, assault.
It began as a classic neighbor-neighbor dispute: one man complaining that another man’s fence leaned onto his property.
But May 18, a Flagler County Deputy was called out to Wellshire Lane three times, ultimately arresting the complainer.
The deputy was sitting about 100 yards from the homes when he saw the complainer grab a wooden plank of the other neighbor’s fence, rip it off, and chuck it into the neighbor’s yard. Moments later the victim called, saying his neighbor was threatening him and ripping up his fence.
When the deputy got to the homes — the third time he’d been there that day — the victim said his neighbor had ripped the plank off his fence and said he’d beat him to death and that his fists were “legal weapons,” according to the deputy’s report. The victim said he thought the neighbor was violent, and said he feared for his safety.
The complainer said he tore off the plank because the fence was leaning onto his property.
He’d said the same thing about the fence when the deputy was called out to the location that afternoon. But he didn’t have a survey, and the deputy had told him to check with the city of Palm Coast to see where the property boundary lay.
The deputy arrested the complainer for criminal mischief and assault, and added a charge of resisting arrest without violence when the complainer repeatedly pulled away and tried to hide his arms as the deputy handcuffed him.
