- November 16, 2025
4:28 p.m. – 100 block of Cypress Point Parkway
Petit theft. A 24-year-old Palm Coast man caught stealing$16.97 Iron Man sunglasses and a $34.92 watch led law enforcement on a half-mile foot chase.
A loss prevention officer at a store on Cypress Point Parkway watched the suspect steal a watch and called the Sheriff’s Office. A deputy made it onto the scene before the suspect had left the property and spotted the suspect leaving the store parking lot.
The suspect took off when the deputy approached him and led the deputy on foot chase through neighboring retail plazas, according to the man’s arrest report.
The deputy called for backup and chased the suspect on foot across Cypress Point Parkway into another grocery store’s parking lot. The suspect tried to hide in the bushes before running to the back of another property, making it around to a dealership on Palm Coast Parkway, the report said.
The deputy finally managed to detain the suspect and when he searched the man’s pockets, the deputy found the watch, the sunglasses and a $4.96 bicycle tire tube. The items together with tax totaled $60.83.
The suspect admitted to stealing the tire tube and sunglasses, saying thy were intended for his job as eye protection and to commute to work. The watch he took because he liked it, the report said.
The man was charged with petit theft and for obstruction without violence, since he fled and hid from law enforcement.
1:41 a.m. – Intersection of Royal Palms and Belle Terre Parkways, Palm Coast
DUI. A Palm Coast woman pulled over for running a red light and driving in the wrong lanes had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit, according to her arrest report.
A Sheriff’s Office deputy witnessed the woman go through a red light and began driving north in the southbound Belle Terre Parkway lanes. The deputy followed the woman, but in the northbound lanes, with his lights and sirens going before the woman pulled over, still in the southbound lanes.
When the deputy confronted her, the woman said she had just finished work at a bar, but the deputy noticed that not only did she smell alcohol on the woman’s breath, but she had other signs of intoxication.
The woman failed the field sobriety test and, and during the breathalyzer blew a .241 and a .232. She was arrested and taken to the county jail.
