- December 13, 2025
Treading lightly
12:02 a.m. – 600 block of Highway U.S. 1, Bunnell
DUI. Two police officers were finishing a traffic stop when they heard a passing car that sounded as though it were dragging something.
Looking up, they found a white SUV speeding north on Highway U.S. 1 with the driver side front tire completely shredded off the rim. One officer immediately followed the SUV and pulled over the driver, a Palm Coast woman, according to an arrest report.
The woman told the officer she was coming from Ormond Beach, but also said she was “headed home to Ormond Beach,” though her license said her home address was in Palm Coast. It was clear to the officer that the woman did not know where she was at the time and appeared inebriated from her inability to multi-task and slurred speech, the report said.
She denied having anything to drink and agreed to a field sobriety test – where she promptly failed every stage, including when she was trying to get her phone to record the officers during the walk-and-turn portion. A breathalyzer test revealed the suspect had a blood-alcohol level of 0.172, more than twice the legal limit.
She was taken to the county jail and her car towed.
Family feud
7:24 p.m. – 100 block of Red Mill Drive, Palm Coast
Battery. A 22-year-old Palm Coast man was arrested after he allegedly punched both his brothers in the face over food and French fries.
When a Sheriff’s Office deputy arrived on scene at the home the two victims – the suspect’s adult brothers – told the deputy that an argument broke out with their brother over food. For seemingly no other reason, the suspect then hit both men in the face, according to his arrest report.
The brothers’ mother and the suspect’s girlfriend witnessed the fight and backed up the two brothers’ testimony, the report said. Deputies later found the suspect who denied hitting either of his brothers or that any physical fighting occurred.
The suspect was taken to the county jail and is being charged with a misdemeanor for domestic violence battery, as the parties were all related.
