- April 16, 2024
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Miscreant breaks into shed, causes $900 damage, doesn't steal anything
3:18 p.m. First block of Midway Drive. Commercial burglary: A Palm Coast couple went to their storage shed and found the front door knocked down, the windows broken and the inside of the shed covered in white fire extinguisher powder. "There were no footprints on the floor, suggesting the fire extinguisher was discharged from outside the door," a deputy wrote in a case report. A shed next door, which belonged to the same couple, had been broken into as well. In both cases, it seemed the burglar used a metal pry bar to break in though the front door, the deputy wrote. Nothing was actually stolen, but there was about $900 worth of damage to the building.
Boys caught on private property say they're 'just looking around'
6:53 p.m. First block of Fairview Lane. Attempted burglary: 53-year-old man was raking leaves in his front yard when he saw two boys peering out of an open gate to his neighbor's fenced backyard. The man confronted the boys, who were apologetic and said they were just looking around. The boys took off on a skateboard and a BMX bicycle. Another neighbor followed the boys in a car, and confronted them near the intersection of Farragut Drive and Old Kings Road North before they fled to a nearby woodline. A deputy checked the property the boys had been on, and noticed that the bolt mechanism of a rear exterior door near the garage had been broken, apparently with a ball peen hammer that was laying on a nearby worktable. But it didn't look as if anyone had entered, the deputy wrote in a case report.
