- November 18, 2024
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When a local mom returned home from work May 10 and asked her son why he hadn’t called her when he got home, he had quite a story to tell: The phone, he said, was stolen.
The mom called the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy told deputies he was sitting with some friends on a bench at Ralph Carter Park at about 3 p.m., and had set his Metro PCS Samsung Galaxy cell phone down on the bench behind him, according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report.
When the boy wasn’t looking, he said, an older male — Sheriff’s Office reports don’t say how old the person was, but the boy described him as about six feet tall — snatched the phone and started walking off with it, according to the report.
The boy didn’t notice the theft, but one of his friends did, and together they walked up to the guy and confronted him, asking to see if the phone was in his backpack, the boy told deputies.
The boy told deputies the thief said no, but then lifted up his shirt to show a black handgun tucked into his waistband. The deputy who recorded the crime in an incident report noted that the boy didn’t mention the gun the first time he recounted the theft.
The boy said the thief drove off in a small white car with a scratch on the trunk, but he didn’t know what kind of car it was or which direction it went.
He said he’d be able to identify the thief is he saw him again, and gave deputies the name of the other boy he was with, a student at Buddy Taylor Middle School.
Deputies will retrieve video footage of the park and attempt to identify the thief, according to the report.
