- November 18, 2024
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July 11
Kids say the darndest things …
12 a.m. Intersection of Belle Terre Parkway and Pine Grove Drive. False name.
A deputy on patrol at the intersection of Belle Terre Parkway and Pine Grove Drive thought something was amiss when he say two teen boys on a single bicycle — no lights — at about midnight.
He stopped the kids.
One of the boys, asked what his name was, identified himself.
The other said his name was John and gave a last name that was redacted in the deputy’s report.
The deputy asked the teens if their parents knew where they were, and the boys said they did. The deputy asked the teens if they were on probation, and they said they weren’t.
The deputy told the kids to call their parents so he could confirm that they were allowed to be out.
The boy named John called his father and handed the phone to the deputy.
The father confirmed that the teen was allowed to be out, but said his name wasn’t John. The deputy asked the teen why his dad said his name was something else, and the teen “stated that he didn’t know why his dad would say that but his name was John and his father didn’t know what he was talking about,” according to the deputy’s report.
The deputy looked the boy up under the name his father gave. The teen was on probation for a misdemeanor and had an 8 p.m. curfew. The deputy charged him with providing a false name while detained and with misdemeanor probation violation, and arrested him, according to the report.
July 10
The REALLY wet bandits
9:29 a.m. First block of Wildwood Drive. Larceny.
An Austin Outdoors employee flagged down a deputy July 10 to report an unusual theft: someone snuck onto the property overnight, he said, and made off with 54 sprinkler heads — each worth $10 — from the landscaping company’s property near 16th Road near the intersection of Wildwood Road.
Another eight sprinkler heads were stolen from the area near the intersection of Hammock Dunes Parkway and Oak View Circle, according to the deputy’s report.
The irrigation system waters the property at night, and the sprinkler heads are removable when they’re in operation, the employee told the deputy.
Some sprinkler heads had also been stolen July 3, the employee said, but the staff hadn’t reported the theft.
The store’s staff attached new sprinkler heads that can’t be easily removed by hand, and the deputy told the employee the Sheriff’s Office would place an extra watch on the property.
Open invitation
10:15 a.m. 300 block of Palm Coast Parkway S.W. Stolen vehicle.
A man called the Sheriff’s Office after he got up to leave for work and discovered that his Honda van, which he’d left overnight in the driveway of his Watermill Place home, had been stolen.
He tried to access the home’s surveillance video with his smartphone, but needed the camera company’s help, and went to their office on Palm Coast Parkway, where he called the Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy watched the footage, which showed a man entering the unlocked car, rummaging through it, and then grabbing a key from the center console. The thief put the key in the ignition, started the car, and sped off.
The deputy wrote in a report that footage of the thief will be uploaded to a crime database, along with a description of the van.
July 7
Thief broke into the Ford, tried to steal an Accord
9:21 p.m. 1100 block of Palm Coast Parkway S.W. Burglary.
A security officer at Palm Coast Ford was walking the lot at about 8:55 the evening of July 7 when he saw that the front driver side window of a 2011 Honda Accord on the lot was shattered. It had been intact at 7:30.
The dealership’s staff called the Sheriff’s Office.
The security man told the deputy that window-mounted lock box holding the car’s key was stolen form the broken window. He said he suspected the thief stole the lock boy to open it, remove the key, and return to steal the car.
A dealership manager said another lock box on a different car had been damaged at the dealership a few days before.
The security officer and manager thought whoever stolen the lockbox must have entered from the west side of the lot near the SunTrust bank to avoid the property’s security cameras.
The deputy wrote in a report that the rear driver’s side window and door of the Accord was smudged. He photographed the damage, and the dealership manager moved the car to a more secure location.
