- April 19, 2024
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7:41 p.m. — 5000 block of Ocean Shore Boulevard
Criminal mischief. While on patrol, a deputy encountered several highly-intoxicated people under a pavilion near a boat ramp.
He watched as one of the individuals, a 32-year-old Palm Coast man, ignored a fellow deputy's directives to either sit down or remain in place as the man moved freely throughout the picnic area. According to the man's arrest report, he was "actively attempting to maintain distance and objects between him" and the deputy.
When the reporting deputy began to approach him, the man moved away as if to run or fight and the deputy drew his taser. The man became compliant and was secured for the investigation.
While speaking with another detained individual on the scene, the man began shouting across the pavilion, asking if law enforcement had called him by a racial slur. The deputy noted multiple people were trying to fish next to the pavilion or utilize the picnic area while this was going on.
He resisted deputy's attempts to place him in the patrol car, and once inside, he kicked the vehicle panels. Later during a struggle at the Flagler County inmate facility, the man broke a deputy's $40 wristwatch. He was transported to the hospital for evaluation.
6:45 p.m. — 600 block of Springdale Drive, Flagler Beach
Battery. A man called police to inform that his nephew, a 25-year-old Flagler Beach man, was extremely intoxicated and had thrown a picture at him. The victim wished to press charges.
Officers made contact with the man at the front door of the home and they asked to come inside. The man granted them entry, and officers noted he was "visibly intoxicated with glassy eyes and slow movements," according to his arrest report. The reporting officer asked him what was going on that night, and the man replied that it wasn't nighttime yet; that it was 3 p.m.
This was incorrect. It was, indeed, the early hours of the evening.
The officer asked the man if he had gotten into an argument with his uncle, and the man said no. After some further questioning, the man began answering with either a thumbs up for "yes," or a thumbs down for "no." He denied throwing anything at his uncle.
The man's mother told police that he did throw something at his uncle, but that she didn't see what. The man then told police he and his uncle had been arguing about his drinking and that he threw "gang signs at him," the report states. He claimed his uncle had made the story up and alleged everything was fine.
His mother then showed police the object that had been thrown: a cardboard picture measuring about 6 inches by 4 inches. The man told officers that he didn't mean to hit his uncle; he had meant to throw the object at the wall.
The man was arrested.
