- February 16, 2026
10:46 a.m. — 200 block of Pine Lakes Parkway, Palm Coast
Possession of a controlled substance. A Palm Coast woman was arrested after a Sheriff’s Office deputy found her inhaling nitrous oxide behind a local gas station.
The deputy was checking out a call about a suspicious vehicle parked behind the gas station when he saw the woman in the car inhaling directly from a large black and green canister, according to an arrest report. When the deputy asked her what it was, she stopped inhaling it, told him it was nitrous oxide, and began sucking gas from the can again.
Nitrous oxide is more commonly known as laughing gas. The deputy immediately took the canister from the woman. The canister had 1,350 grams of nitrous oxide.
While talking to the deputy, the woman admitted she used the gas to “feel free” and admitted to having four THC vape pens in her pocket, the report said. The woman was taken to the county jail.
10:22 p.m. — 2500 block of Palm Coast Parkway northwest, Palm Coast
Drug possession. A couple was arrested for smoking weed in a car outside a county library.
The car was parked outside the library after it had closed and two Sheriff’s Office deputies approached the car as part of a proactive patrol. As they approached, the passenger let down a window, letting out a cloud of marijuana smoke, according to an arrest report.
One deputy spoke to the driver, who admitted her friend in the passenger seat was smoking. But when the deputy told her to exit the car, the woman instead locked the door and shook her head no, the report said. Though the driver began arguing with the deputies about exiting the car, her passenger unlocked the car doors, allowing the deputy to open it.
A search of the vehicle found 2.4 grams of marijuana, rolling papers, a box cutter and a glass pipe. The passenger told deputies that all the drug related items in the car belonged to him.
Both occupants were arrested and taken to jail.
