- May 15, 2024
-
-
Loading
Loading
April 4
Just (over)hangin’
8:45 a.m. — First block of Palm Harbor Parkway
Theft: A property manager arrived at work at about 8 a.m. and saw that a thief had stolen an aluminum overhang and several window frames. The manager wasn’t sure when the theft took place. The stolen overhang and the window frames were worth about $5,000 altogether.
April 11
As if tax returns aren’t enough of a pain already
11:59 a.m. — 100 block of Palm Coast Parkway
Fraud: A Palm Coast couple made three attempts to file their tax returns though TurboTax April 10, but each time they tried, the return was rejected with a message telling them that someone had already used the man’s Social Security number to file a 2014 return. They “stated they had not previously filed before and believe someone must have copied it,” a deputy wrote in an incident report after the couple reported the problem at the Palm Coast Sheriff’s Office substation. The wife told the deputy they’d already reported the incident to the IRS, which told them to file a police report.
April 12
Just a bump in the road?
9:49 a.m. — First block of Linda Place
Larceny: A woman woke up in the morning and saw that the entire rear bumper of her Red 2014 Ford Mustang was missing, as was her license plate and tag decal. She told a Sheriff’s Office deputy that she had stopped in Tallahassee the previous night to get gas, and her bumper was not missing then. She’d arrived home from her drive at 3 a.m. A deputy wrote in an incident report that “the rear bumper area had broken tabs, which appeared to be what was holding the bumper on.” There was no evidence that there had been a crash, the deputy wrote, but it was not clear whether the bumper had been stolen or had fallen off the car during the woman’s drive.
Dine and dash
7:37 p.m. — First block of Plaza Drive
Larceny: A man ate $48.14 worth of food at a local steak house and then ran out on the tab. A restaurant employee told a Sheriff’s Office deputy that the man, who sported a goatee, gray shirt and camouflage shorts, had done the same thing about two times in the past. It was always the same routine: He’d leave a white debit card on the table and then leave, speeding off in a Ford Escape. The card would be declined. The employee told the deputy that she didn’t refuse the man service, even though she recognized him, because she thought she might be able to gather more information for law enforcement if he stayed. The deputy took the debit card into evidence.
