- December 4, 2025
8:03 p.m. — 100 block of Flagler Plaza Drive, Palm Coast
Criminal mischief. Employees at a local hotel contact deputies after a 46-year-old Palm Coast man was seen using a hammer to try to break out of a room's window.
When deputies arrived, they could hear loud banging and commotion coming from the room, according to the arrest report. The man refused verbal commands to open the door, and a deputy was given a room key to enter, at which point the man threw a "large metal object" in his direction.
The report never stated what the metal object was; but it noted that the room had a substantial amount of damage "consistent with the metal object that he was observed throwing towards deputies." The window in the room by the bed was also shattered.
The damage was estimated to cost the hotel about $2,500.
The man was taken to jail.
1:50 a.m. — First block of Flagler Place, Palm Coast
Loitering or prowling. Deputies arrested a 31-year-old Palatka man who was found trespassing in a resident's backyard.
The resident called 911 after she spotted the man in her yard. She told deputies that she had received an alert on her surveillance camera, which caught the man enter her home's side gate and approach her pool screen. She then used the microphone on her camera to ask him what he was doing, and to order him to get out of her yard.
The man did as she asked.
Deputies canvassed the area and located him near the intersection of Palm Harbor Parkway and Farmsworth Drive. The man told deputies that he was out walking around "when someone from the bushes advised him that there was a lighter in another bush." He said he was trying to locate it.
When asked why he had been in the resident's backyard, he initially denied it, but then said he had been looking for the lighter in the bushes, saying "the lady" told him he could get it.
The man also admitted to consuming methamphetamine throughout the day. He was taken to jail.
