- May 16, 2024
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Sept. 13
Pizza and punch
9:39 p.m. 1000 block of Palm Coast Parkway NW. Battery.
A 18-year-old pizza delivery boy got out of his car to deliver a pizza at a Federal Drive address, walked to the trunk of the car, and “was suddenly punched in the face by an unknown individual,” according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report.
He reflexively struck back, he told deputies, and the attacker — whose face he couldn’t see — ran off.
The delivery boy had some redness and swelling on his face and a cut knuckle on his hand from hitting his attacker back, according to a deputy’s report.
Deputies had no further information on the attack at the time they filed an incident report.
Sept. 14
And this is what happens when you arrest a contortionist
5:09 p.m. State Road 100 West at County Road 302. Out-of-county warrant.
Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a woman who was driving on a suspended license.
The woman called a man to come pick her up.
But not just any man.
This man, deputies discovered when he arrived and they ran his plate number, was wanted in Volusia County for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Deputies arrested him for that crime, and for possession of cannabis, then cuffed his hands behind his back and put him in a patrol car.
But he “contorted his hands around his body to put the cuffs in front,” according to an arrest report, so deputies added a belly band to keep his him from messing with his cuffs.
Deputies took the man to the hospital — his arrest report doesn’t say why — and a deputy walked outside the man’s room to talk with one of his nurses, leaving the man in a hospital bed with his man’s wrist handcuffed to the bed frame.
When the deputy returned to the room, the man was using his left hand to try to unlock the cuff on his right hand.
The deputy asked him what he was doing.
The man’s reply is redacted in the report.
The deputy “asked (the man) what he was talking about, and he displayed a handcuff key about 1 inch in size,” according to the report.
The deputy asked him where he got it, and the man replied, but the reply was redacted in the report.
The deputy removed the man from the hospital, secured both of his hands behind his back, and added the belly band “so that he would not again be able to move his hands to the front while in transport,” according to the report.
It didn’t work.
“After placing him in my patrol vehicle,” the deputy wrote, “he removed the belly band and again contorted his hands around his body in an effort to get his hands to the front, which he did successfully.”
Deputies added charges of resisting arrest without violence and unlawful possession of a concealed handcuff key.
Sept. 15
Checking out, cashing in
3:28 p.m. First block of Becker Lane Larceny.
A 77-year-old man dropped an $850 mortgage check in his mailbox and raised the mailbox’s flag.
At about 1:30 p.m., he told deputies, he saw a small black vehicle stopped in front of his house, opened the mailbox door, and shut it again.
He walked out to the box. The flag was still up, but the envelope with the check was gone.
He called the post office. They said it wasn’t one of their vehicles.
He called his bank and cancelled payment on the check. Stopping it cost $34.
About an hour later, deputies got a call from a 66-year-old Beth Lane resident who had also had a check stolen out of his mailbox — in this case, a $276 check for Terminex.
The 66-year-old’s bank called him before cashing it, and he told them not to.
Deputies are investigating the crimes, and believe they are connected to others in Volusia County, according to a Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
