- November 16, 2024
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July 7
Mailboxes stolen on Rolling Sands
7:49 p.m. — First block of Rolling Sands Drive
Larceny: A 69-year-old man walked outside to check his mail, but found that more than the mail was missing: The entire mailbox and post had been stolen.
It had been there at about 7:30 the night before, he told a Sheriff’s Office deputy called to the home to investigate, and was worth about $75.
The box and post were secured by a friction lock, and the thief had “simply lifted the post and mailbox off the base,” the deputy wrote in a report.
Neighbors told the deputy they hadn’t heard anything suspicious.
The same day, the Sheriff’s Office got another call about a stolen mailbox on Rolling Sands Drive, this time from a 65-year-old woman.
Her mailbox had been worth about $50, she told deputies.
July 8
Note: Florida isn’t Michigan
7:42 p.m. Flagler Plaza Drive.
Narcotics: Someone called the Sheriff’s Office to report the smell of marijuana coming from a room on the fourth floor of a hotel.
Deputies arrived, smelled the pot, and spoke to the two occupants, who produced “medical marijuana” prescription cards from Michigan, according to a Sheriff’s Office log report. Michigan voters approved the legalization of medical marijuana for those in their state with debilitating conditions in 2008.
“The two were advised of Florida's current laws on possession of marijuana and they surrendered all of their remaining ‘prescription’ marijuana (approximately five grams) to deputies for destruction,” according to the log.
Deputies gave the visitors a warning, and the hotel’s management threw them out of the hotel.
Rudeness leads to fight, 911 call
9:58 p.m. First block of Boulder Rock Drive
Physical disturbance: A bit of rudeness on the road sparked a disturbance that led to a 911 call after a woman driving a Hyundai Sonata cut in front of another car on Palm Coat Parkway, and the couple who’d been cut off confronted her.
The Hyundai pulled into a gas station on the corner of Boulder Rock Drive, and the car that had been cut off — occupied by a 51-year-old man, who’d been driving, and his wife — followed, the wife later told deputies, because the man wanted to confront the Hyundai driver.
The Hyundai driver got out of her car, and the wife from the car who’d been cut off got out and confronted her, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
The Hyundai driver went inside to use the bathroom, and when she came out, the wife had positioned herself behind the Hyundai and was saying she’d called the Sheriff’s Office.
The Hyundai driver then pushed the wife down and got into the car.
The wife’s husband walked up to the Hyundai and began punching the windshield. When the woman began to back up, he punched the taillight, breaking it.
The Hyundai sped out of the lot and headed north on Interstate 95. Deputies weren’t able to find it.
A deputy who responded to the call “spoke to (the couple) of the consequences and dangers of confronting a reckless/unknown person” and advised them to contact law enforcement in the future instead of taking matters into their own hands.
