- November 18, 2024
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For the Roger’s Towing driver, the call that came in just after midnight June 6 sounded like so many others: motorists out of gas on the Interstate 95.
This one, as it turned out, was different.
The car, a silver Honda Civic, had Montana plates, and the driver said his name was Jared Good. He was with a young woman. The tow truck driver gave the couple some gas. But instead of paying him, the two jumped into the car and sped off, turning off the interstate onto State Road 100, according to a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office report.
The driver called the Sheriff’s Office, and the Sheriff’s Office alerted deputies to watch to for the car.
One of them spotted it, empty, in the parking lot of a Hilton Garden Inn on Town Center Boulevard. He ran the car’s tag number. It had been reported stolen in Montana.
The tow truck driver came to the parking lot and said the car the deputy found was the one driven by the couple that stiffed him. He was just describing the two to the deputy — the man was heavy set, tattooed and wearing a green shirt, and the woman appeared pregnant and was wearing a black shirt and shorts — when the two came strolling out of the Panera and turned toward Tom Gibbs Chevrolet.
The deputy, along with several other deputies and a police dog named Tag, took off after the couple, according to the report.
The pair entered the car dealership’s parking lot, which was where Tag found them, huddled underneath a parked car.
Deputies identified the two as 31-year-old James David Bailey and 25-year-old Andrea Brooke Jette, both Bunnell residents.
The tow truck driver showed up and identified them as the ones who ran off without paying.
Jette was listed as the primary suspect in a car theft in Laurel, Montana, according to the report. Authorities there believe she got the Civic’s keys during a dealership test drive, didn’t return them, and then came back later the same night and stole the car.
Jette and Bailey were both charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and with petit theft, for running off with the tow truck driver’s gas, according to the report.
