- November 18, 2024
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A “large group of teenagers” went to the Target on State Road 100 Friday night and began zooming around the vestibule on the store’s electric shopping carts, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
An asset protection officer called the Sheriff’s Office after one of the teens, flanked by his friends, drove a cart out of the store and out of the view of its security cameras, according to the report.
The store employee walked out the store to see where he went, and saw a red Ford F-150 pickup truck speed off with the cart sitting in its bed.
A deputy stopped the truck on Royal Palms Parkway and arrested the driver, 18-year-old Travis Luke, on a charge of grand theft. Deputies read him his Miranda warnings, and he admitted to the theft, according to the report.
Then the deputy called Luke’s mom, the truck’s owner, and she drove the cart back to Target.
The cart, a Dane Technologies SmartKart, was valued at about $2,000. Luke was taken to the Flagler County jail.
