- April 24, 2024
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March 23
Raging against the machine
11:01 a.m. — 3000 block of Palm Coast Parkway S.E.
Burglary: An employee of a local college opened up a campus building for classes and noticed that an interior ATM and a separate bill-dispensing machine were damaged.
The man told deputies he always checks the building’s doors before he opens them, and that there were no signs of forced entry.
No security cameras covered the ATM or the dispensing machine, he said.
An employee of the company that owns the ATM told deputies that it had an issue with the ATM on March 20: At about 10:59 p.m., he said, the machine had sent the company an error message, which is always transmitted within an hour of the error.
The would-be thief wasn’t able to get any cash out of either machine, but the ATM’s front panel was pried open, causing about $10,000 of damage, and there was about $1,000 in damage to the bill-dispensing machine.
Covering their tracks
6:00 p.m. — First block of Burnside Drive
Car Burglary: A 37-year-old woman told deputies someone stole her son’s cell phone from her unlocked car sometime between 8:30 p.m. March 22 and 6:00 p.m. March 23.
The woman told deputies she had a “track my phone” app for the stolen phone, and that it appeared to be at a house in the first block of Burning Ember Lane. A deputy went there and spoke to the residents, who cooperated and allowed a search of the home. The deputy searched the home and tried calling the phone, but couldn’t find it.
The deputy returned to tell the woman what had happened, and she said that the app now showed the phone at another nearby address.
“She then updated the phone several times and the location changed every time,” the deputy wrote in a report. “It then became apparent that the tracking app was not accurately tracking the location of the phone.”
The woman gave deputies the phone’s serial number so it could be listed in a database as stolen.
March 24
Persistent thieves, or just bad luck?
1:19 p.m. First block of Slender Place
Stolen Vehicle: A 27-year-old man came home on a lunch break, parked his 2006 Nissan Frontier in the garage with the keys inside, and forgot to close the garage door. When his wife arrived home soon after, the truck was gone.
The man had left his wallet, a .40-caliber Glock model 27 handgun and a pressure washer in the truck.
He told deputies that the truck had a custom sticker on the driver’s side rear window, and that the truck was low on gas and whoever stole it would probably need to stop to get more within an hour of driving.
The man’s wife told deputies a thief burgled her own car about a week before in Daytona Beach and stole the truck’s key.
A deputy who wrote an incident report on the case wrote that it was not known if the two thefts were related.
March 25
The park’s Maine attraction
1:59 p.m. — 6400 block of N. Oceanshore Boulevard
Car Burglary: A man and his wife went to a local state park at about 1:10 p.m., went for a walk, and returned to the parking lot to find that their car had been burglarized.
The thief smashed a window and made off with the wife’s purse, containing her Maine driver’s license, credit and debit cards and about $300 cash. A deputy investigating the case found no physical evidence at the crime scene.
Gym thieves do stretch-and-reach — into victim’s car
12:49 p.m. — 200 block of Cypress Edge Drive
Car Burglary: A young woman and her boyfriend went into a local gym at about 10:42 a.m., then walked back out later and found the woman’s car burgled.
The passenger side window was shattered, and the woman’s iPhone 5C was stolen from the front seat.
A deputy reviewed surveillance video of the crime, which showed a black car pull up alongside the woman’s.
Two people got out of the black car, opened the black car’s trunk, then stood there for about seven minutes as people around them entered and left the building. Then they got back in the car, and one of them got out and approached the woman’s car, then began “making swift movements, consistent with breaking a window, forcefully pulling the window away from the vehicle, and reaching into (the woman’s) vehicle,” according to the deputy’s report.
The thief got back in the car, which sped off.
The deputy spoke to one young gym member who was putting his gym bag into the trunk of his car while the two thieves were standing outside nearby.
The young man said two suspects were a man and a woman in their 40s or 50s, and that they arrived in a car that looked like a 2008 or 2009 Chevy Impala and had a white and gray dog that looked like a pit bull inside it.
