- November 18, 2024
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Sept. 10
You did what?
4:55 a.m. First block of Boulder Rock Drive. Burglary.
Deputies arrested a man for violating a trespass warning, then found he was connected to a more serious crime: burglary.
The man was panhandling at a gas station on Boulder Rock Drive when a deputy arrested him for violating a trespass warning for the gas station.
Another deputy at the station noted in an arrest report that the man smelled of alcohol and was bleeding from a small puncture wound in his right hand.
He was treated and then taken to the county jail, where deputies confiscated a blue Bic lighter and a black Bic lighter, which aren’t allowed into the jail.
Deputies questioned him about two burglaries at a gas station on State Road 100, one of which occurred that morning. He initially denied both burglaries.
But then, the deputy wrote in his report, the deputy “ mentioned to (the man) that whoever burglarized (the gas station) seemed to have a conscience because there were only a few small items taken. I told (the man) that he seemed like a good honest person and that if he did in fact commit the burglary, then being honest would be his best option going forward because the (word redacted) would expose the truth regardless.”
The man then said something that is redacted in the deputy’s report, as incriminating statements often are. The deputy replied to the man's statement by saying, “Tell who that you did what?”
The deputy scheduled a follow-up interview and asked the man about the burglaries, both committed by a thief who entered the station by using apiece of tile to break out a window.
Two Bic lighters were among the items stolen from the station. The display they were stolen from contained only blue and black lighters.
The man’s replies to deputies’ questions are redacted in the report, but the report states that he “swore that the provided confession was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
Other items stolen from the gas station in the Aug. 27 burglary included two or three bottles of Old English malt liquor, three packs of cigarettes, two $10 rolls of quarters, three packs of rolling papers and two packs of Tic Tacs.
The only items stolen during the Sept. 10 burglary were three Old English malt liquor bottles.
The total damage to the store from the broken glass was $800.
Sept. 11
Checking it out
2:30 p.m. First block of Century Lane. Fraud.
A 58-year-old woman was defrauded of about $3,000 by a scammer who sent her a bad check.
The woman, who runs a website advertising her services as a caretaker of the elderly, thought she was getting a new customer: a 42-year-old woman who said she was from New York and planning to move to Palm Coast with her elderly mother.
The younger woman sent the website owner a check for $2,780.99, then asked the website owner to send money to several people in California.
The website owner did so, and then realized later that the check was fraudulent. Her bank told her that the funds may not be restored for approximately 30 days.
The woman told deputies that police in Danville, California were aware that checks from their jurisdiction are being used in a large-scale fraud scheme.
