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May 2
Burglary can be heavy lifting
8:24 p.m. First block of Crompton Place. Burglary.
A woman returned home May 2, went out to her patio, and realized all the patio furniture — an antique concrete and stone patio table, and two benches inlaid with multicolored stones — was gone.
She called the Sheriff’s Office, and a deputy investigating the crime noted that her yard wasn’t fenced and that it backed up against a golf course.
There were no signs of forced entry to the house itself. A window was smashed, but it was an interior one not reachable from the outside.
The woman told the deputy she was having her house renovated, and the deputy speculated in his report that the contractor could have broken the interior window.
The deputy gave her a case card and said he would check with her lawn service provider.
The stolen lawn furniture was worth about $5,000.
May 4
Two wrongs and no right
5:05 p.m. First block of Zenoble Place. Larceny.
Deputies arrested a man May 3 for domestic battery, but when he was released and arrived home the next day, he called the Sheriff’s Office.
He told deputies that while he was being arrested, his girlfriend — the one he’d been arrested for hitting — had stolen his prescription Hydrocodone and Alprazolam, $240 in cash, and possibly his birth certificate from a safe the two of them shared in his house.
The deputy gave the man a case card.
May 5
Layering for the larcenous?
6:36 p.m. First block of Old Kings Road. Larceny.
A loss prevention officer at a local department store saw a man walk into a fitting room with a bundle of items of clothing and then emerge minutes later holding just a few.
The man walked out of the store without paying for anything, and the loss prevention officer stopped him in the parking lot.
The man admitted taking the clothes, and showed the loss prevention officer where he’d hidden them: he had a bra and a T-shirt in his pants pocket, and was wearing a pilfered pair of swim trunks.
The loss prevention officer gave the deputy a written witness statement and a copy of the store’s surveillance video.
The deputy issued the thief a trespass warning from the store, arrested him on a shoplifting charge and took him to the Flagler County jail.
The stolen clothes were worth a total of $51.97.
