- November 18, 2024
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Wednesday, April 2
Perfect timing
2:01 a.m. 1000 Block of Palm Coast Parkway.
A deputy on patrol stopped at a gas station and noticed two young men in front of the convenience store.
One of the men reached into his shorts and removed something, then quickly replaced it after noticing the deputy’s patrol car.
The other man was wearing a backpack and had a pit bull on a leash.
The deputy stopped them both, and asked them if they were armed. They said they weren’t.
He patted both men down, and found a loaded Colt .38 Special in one of the men’s pockets.
The serial numbers had been filed off. The man “stated that he had the firearm because he had just sold one of his pit-bull puppies,” according to the arrest affidavit.
The deputy arrested him for possession of a concealed firearm without legal authority, and possession of an altered firearm.
Leaving nothing but footprints
2:55 p.m. Second block of Pine Grove Drive. Attempted burglary.
A man told deputies he’d left his home at about 11:30 a.m., then returned at about 2:50 p.m. to find the front door kicked in.
There was a “dark shoe print next to the door knob, and one dark smudge on the lower part of the door,” according to a Sheriff’s Office case report.
But when the man checked the inside of the house, nothing was missing or moved. The man and an investigating deputy believed the man’s dog scared the intruder away.
None of the neighbors the deputy spoke with saw the intruder.
The door frame sustained about $200 in damage.
