- April 18, 2024
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Two 14-year-old boys were arrested after running from a deputy at the Flagler Technical Institute campus at Flagler Palm Coast High School May 25, and one of them had a stun gun, according to Sheriff's Office reports. Both boys also carried marijuana.
The incident happened at about 11:15 a.m. when Flagler Technical Institute Director Kevin McCarthy saw two boys he didn't recognize walking between FTI and FPC and trying to open the campus' south gate, according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office report. One of the boys admitted to McCarthy that he wasn't an FTI or FPC student and that he lived in Daytona Beach.
But when School Resource Deputy Calvin Grant arrived, the boys ran, heading for Town Center.
One of the boys, a Palm Coast resident and an FTI student, ran into Petsmart, where Grant found the teen hiding in the women's bathroom. The deputy secured the boy and searched his backpack, finding a baggie of marijuana, an e-cigarette and cigars, according to a charging affidavit. The boy was already on probation for a prior charge.
The other boy walked back toward a deputy and a school administrator as they were discussing the case, and turned himself in. A deputy searched him and found marijuana and a glass pipe, a digital scale, cigars and a Vipertek brand stun gun. A deputy tested the stun gun. It worked.
The Palm Coast boy was charged with possession of a controlled substance and with resisting arrest without violence, and the Daytona Beach boy was charged with possession of under 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting arrest without violence, trespassing on school property and possession or display of a weapon on school property (a felony).
The Palm Coast boy was taken to a juvenile detention center in Daytona Beach, and the Daytona Beach boy was released to a parent.
