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Oct. 15
Underwear Guy
7:49 a.m. Rosepetal Lane. Attempted burglary.
A woman woke up to her dog barking, and an insistent knocking on her front door. The knocks “became harder and more urgent,” according to a summary of her statement in a Sheriff’s Office report, and she looked through the peephole and saw a middle-aged man she didn’t recognize — wearing only his underwear — standing outside the door.
She tried to ignore the knocks, but the man kept banging on the door.
She called 911, and as she did, the man began shoving the door “while wiggling the door handle in an attempt to get into the residence,” according to the report.
The woman was scared for her life and the lives of her two young children, so she put the kids in the master bedroom and went to the front door to ask the man who he was.
Instead of answering, the man pulled his underwear down and urinated on her front porch, and then walked away.
When a deputy arrived, he found the underwear-only–clad man, a 57-year-old Palm Coast resident, sitting in the driver’s seat of the car in the driveway.
The deputy asked him if the car was his, and “he said ‘nothing was his,’” according to the report.
The car was the woman’s. The woman looked at the car and said he’d scattered the items from the center console all over the car.
The man gave the deputy his name, address and phone number, and gave a statement that is redacted in the deputy’s report.
The deputy arrested the man on charges of attempted burglary of an occupied dwelling, auto burglary and indecent exposure.
Oct. 16
$20,000 worth of child’s play
9:35 a.m. First block of Ulaturn Trail. Criminal mischief.
Lawn maintenance men working at a home that was under renovation by a real estate company for a rental business noticed one day that the sliding glass door to the house was open, and called the realty company.
The home had been flooded, a real estate agent realized when he arrived, by someone who’d “flushed numerous items down the upstairs toilet which caused the toilet to overflow and flood the house,” according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
The damage, he told deputies, could cost as much as $20,000 to repair.
Carpet had to be ripped out, the home’s drywall and ceiling were damaged, and the company had to do mold removal.
The real estate agent told deputies there were two bicycles on the property, and said he spoke to the elementary school-aged brother and sister they belonged to.
The kids told him they had seen two other neighborhood children, both boys, playing inside the house.
A deputy investigating the case wrote in a report that he would contact a school resource deputy to get a list of the children who use the nearby bus stop.
Open invitation
8:53 a.m. First block of Sentry Oak Place.
Vehicle theft. An elderly couple called the Sheriff’s Office after they walked outside at about 8:30 in the morning and realized their silver 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which had been parked in the driveway the night before, was missing.
The man said the Jeep was unlocked, and there “might have been a key fob to the Jeep left in the vehicle,” according to a deputy’s report.
The deputy found no glass on the ground that would have indicted forced entry.
There was no video surveillance in the area.
The deputies entered the Jeep and decal into a crime database as stolen.
