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Monday, March 24
Look through any window ... Or not.
12:28 p.m. 200 block of Palm Coast Parkway NE. Attempted burglary.
A local bank employee was on her lunch break with her husband she she saw a middle-aged man with scraggly hair peering into cars in the parking lot and trying to open the driver-side door of one of her co-workers’ cars.
It was locked, and he walked away toward a nearby gas station and hen into a shopping center, where she lost sight of him.
But she called the Sheriff’s Office and described the man, who she said walked with a limp and was wearing jeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt.
A deputy checked the shopping center and initially found no one that looked like that. But about an hour later, he did; the man was sitting on a bench near the shopping center where the bank employee had lost sight of him. The deputy spoke to the man, and noticed that he walked with a limp.
The bank employee identified the man as the one she’d seen peering into car windows, and deputies arrested him on charges of loitering or prowling and attempted burglary from a motor vehicle.
The man denied looking into or approaching the cars. He said he was passing through the county and has been sleeping outside near the shopping center. Deputies took him to the Flagler County jail.
Store employee tackled by Huggies thief
5:20 p.m. 100 block of Cypress Point Parkway. Shoplifting.
A man confronted by a loss prevention officer after he walked out of a local big box store with a cart of unpaid-for laundry detergent, Huggies diapers and a car jack responded by shoving the store employee out of his way and running off.
But the employee saw the car the man got into — a silver Honda Civic — and noted its tag number.
A deputy stopped it soon after, and the store employee identified the driver as the thief who’d shoved him.
Deputies arrested the man on charges of robbery, and took him to the Flagler County jail.
Minor crash, big problem
5:30 p.m. 200 block of Palm Coast Parkway NE. Physical Disturbance.
A woman called the Sheriff’s Office after she saw an elderly man standing outside of a parked car at a local supermarket “put his hands on” a woman sitting in the car’s driver seat during an argument, according to a case report.
A teenage store employee who was in the parking lot loading groceries ran inside and came back with a manager, who saw the man and woman from the car arguing and told the man to back away from the car until deputies arrived, according to a case report.
Deputies at the scene were told that the man and the woman were in a “very minor” car accident, according to a Sheriff’s Office daily log report, and that the woman, who was 66, asked the man to provide his information. When he refused, she told him she was calling police, and he followed her, according to the log entry.
The woman said the man hit her and tried to pull her out of the car, and the man said the disagreement was verbal only, according to the case report.
Neither the man nor the woman had any visible marks on them, according to the case report, but the woman decided to press charges. Deputies arrested the man, who was 77, on charges of battery on a person over 65.
