- November 17, 2024
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May 5
Somebody needs to cool down
3:45 p.m. — First block of Cherokee Court East
Civil dispute: A 65-year-old man was on a ladder trimming his bushes when his next-door neighbor, a woman, “began squirting him, over a six-foot dividing fence, with a garden hose,” according to the deputy’s report.
The man’s wife “used her phone and recorded the water being sprayed over the fence, although the person spraying the water could not be seen,” according to the report.
The deputy told the neighbors that the matter was a civil dispute. “There is extensive history in reference to the same dispute,” the deputy wrote, with case reports dating back to 2013.
May 7
Gang graffiti at the fire station?
2:01 p.m. — 5800 block of U.S.1 South.
Criminal mischief: A lieutenant with the Flagler County Fire Department told Sheriff’s Office deputies that he was walking the grounds of the fire station on U.S. at about 10 a.m. when he noticed graffiti on the east wall of the pump house and the water tank behind the station.
A deputy who checked the graffiti wrote in a report that it “appeared it could be gang-related.” “On the east side of the water tank, the name ‘Tommy’ was spray painted in blue paint,” the deputy wrote. “Above the name ‘Tommy’ there was what appeared to be a three-point crown.” There were also other letters and symbols incorporating crowns and pitchforks.
The deputy noted that the paint did not look fresh, but the lieutenant said he’d checked the pump house and water tank sometime in the first week of April, and hadn’t noticed any of the graffiti then.
The damage would cost approximately $100 to repair, according to the report.
Blaming it all on the girlfriend
3:15 p.m. — First block of Potterville Lane
Suspicious person: Local residents called the Sheriff’s Office after a prowler rode a bike through a woman’s yard, then entered a man’s home and stole cash.
The woman, a 35-year-old, said she asked the 32-year-old prowler what he was doing riding his bike through her Poinbury Drive yard.
The woman, in an interview with a deputy, “stated (the man) responded he was riding his bike away from his girlfriend, who was chasing him in her car,” the deputy wrote in a case report.
Another local resident, a 67-year-old man, walked into his living room from the garage and saw the 32-year-old standing between his bedroom and a sliding glass door, and told the prowler to get out. But the 67-year-old later realized that two $20 bills and several $1 bills had been stolen from his wallet.
A deputy found the 32-year-old riding his bicycle between two homes, and a witness picked him out of a lineup.
The deputy asked the prowler why he’d said told the woman a story about being chased by a girlfriend, and the man “stated he was just saying that so (the woman) would not think he was doing something wrong.”
The deputy arrested the man on charges of loitering/prowling and burglarizing an occupied dwelling.
