- November 18, 2024
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It started with a creepy comment.
A woman was walking to her car in the Target parking lot on State Road 100 just after noon April 1 when a man started following her in his car, then pulled up alongside her and said, “Hello, you look really good today.”
The statement made the woman uncomfortable. She quickly got in her car and drove home. But she told her husband about the strange man, and he called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy drove over to the parking lot to look for the man who’d followed the woman, and found a car that matched the woman’s description heading east out of the lot.
He followed, and stopped the car east of the intersection of Landings Boulevard and State Road 100.
He asked the driver — later identified as 51-year-old John McDevitt — how long he’d been in the parking lot. McDevitt said he’d been there for some time because he was waiting for a friend staying at Florida Hospital Flagler.
The driver asked him if he’d spoken to a woman in the parking lot, and he said he had. When asked, he provided his driver’s license, and the deputy ran a check.
But as he did, he noticed McDevitt “making multiple furtive movements within his vehicle,” and asked him to step out.
When McDevitt did, the deputy “detected the strong odor of cannabis emanating from the area of his mouth.”
The deputy read McDevitt his Miranda rights and asked him if he had cannabis in his possession, if he’d swallowed any, and if he had any in his car. McDevitt’s replies are redacted in the Sheriff’s Office report.
McDevitt gave the deputy permission to search the car, and the deputy found a “large amount of cannabis ‘shake’” in a purse sitting on the passenger seat. There was also a digital weight scale and 3 hydrocodone pills.
The deputy arrested McDevitt on charges of possession of cannabis with intent to sell, possession of hydrocodone, possession of drug paraphernalia and destruction of evidence.
McDevitt told the deputy he had money in his pocket, and he did — $2046.17 — which the deputy seized “due to the money being consistent with the sale of narcotics.”
He was taken to the Flagler County jail.
Jail records show he was arrested twice before in Flagler County, once for domestic battery and once for probation violation.
