- April 25, 2024
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11 p.m., Oct. 25, Graham Swamp at 1100 block of Old Kings Road
Flagler County Sheriff's Office Deputy Jonathan Schmidt was conducting his rounds on Oct. 25 when he noticed a silver Ford F150 in the Graham Swamp parking lot, a man asleep in the cab.
Schmidt woke the man, who said he was sleeping off his "buzz," according to the report. Schmidt ran the man's driver's license and found he was a registered sex offender who had not been staying at his registered address during October.
Upon reading him his Miranda Rights and confronting the man, the offender said he had been living out of his truck for about a month, and at a different address than the one registered for the month prior to that.
He claimed he tried to file updates online; sex offenders, according to the report, are required to do so in person.
Another officer verified with the Econo Lodge that was the man's registered address, and he had, according to the report, only booked there from July 27 to Sept. 8.
Deputy Schmidt arrested the man for sex offender failure to report address change in 48 hours.
12:05 a.m., Oct. 24, 1400 block of E Moody Boulevard, Bunnell
A 21-year-old was arrested on Oct. 24 for carrying a concealed Glock 19 without a permit.
The young man was approached by FCSO Deputy Alton Ogden when the deputy saw him smoking "from a joint styled item" against the driver's side of a vehicle with two other occupants, according to the report. The man immediately dropped the object when he saw Ogden.
Ogden said in the report that he approached the situation comically to put the man at ease, saying "uh oh here comes the cops," to which the man began apologizing.
Ogden said he did not initially intend to arrest him for cannabis, but a review of all three occupants' license revealed the female driver was driving with a suspended license, and the defendants turned over additional narcotics from the vehicle, the report said.
Ogden had the three stand next to his patrol car while the vehicle was searched, and the 21-year-old man told Ogden, unprompted, that he had a gun in his pocket.
The man admitted that he did not have a concealed weapons permit, and "became emotional" when Ogden explained the severity of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, apologizing again.
The man was arrested on the felony charge.
