- November 19, 2024
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Tuesday, Jan. 21
Good Samaritan helps the bad guys
Morning. First block of Fountain Court. Larceny.
The man who lived near the vacant lot on Fountain Court was just trying to help out.
When he saw three guys hauling an old truck topper out of the lot, he figured they could use a hand. So he helped load their green pickup truck.
The problem: the truck topper wasn’t theirs. In fact, the topper — and the vacant lot — belonged to the same man who had leased the good samaritan’s home to him.
The good samaritan didn’t know that, and had no reason to think the three men were crooks.
When the truck topper’s owner realized it was gone, on Jan. 23, he called the Sheriff’s Office to report the theft. The topper had been in the vacant lot for about 15 years.
Wednesday, Jan. 22
Lock it up
8:36 a.m. 1000 block of Mistletoe Street in Bunnell. Larceny.
A deputy drove out to the home of a Bunnell man who'd called to say someone had stolen his handgun, a Kel-Tec 9mm worth about $225.
The man told deputies he wasn’t sure exactly when the gun went missing. He said he kept it in its case in a dresser drawer, and the one day when he went to look for it, it wasn’t there.
Deputies searched an online pawn database but didn’t find a match.
They entered the handgun’s description and serial number into the National Crime Information Center and the Florida Crime Information Center.
Thursday, Jan. 23
Doors: locked; windows: wide open
3:09 p.m. First block of Lyndenhurst Lane. Vehicle break-in.
A woman called the Sheriff’s Office after realizing that her Colt .38 special and about $580 cash had been stolen from her Chevrolet Trailblazer overnight.
The woman, a North Carolina resident staying in Palm Coast with a friend, told deputies that she’d left the car locked, but one of the windows was rolled down several inches.
The handgun — worth about $300 — was unloaded, in its holster in the glove box, she said.
She had also left about $580 in cash in the glove box, tucked inside the Trailblazer’s owner’s manual. She said she usually locks the glove box but went out to the car in the evening to get $20 and didn’t relock it.
The Palm Coast friend the victim was staying with went out to the car at about 8 a.m. to get something out of the car, but she noticed it was locked and decided to wait till later when her friend woke up. She didn’t notice anything suspicious about the vehicle.
The car doors were all locked when the woman returned to the vehicle to find her items missing.
The woman didn’t know the gun’s serial number, so it could not be entered into state and national law enforcement databases.
