- November 14, 2024
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Someone called 911 April 24 after seeing the male half of an arguing couple snap a stop sign off at its base "in a fit of rage" and throw it down the street at the intersection of Bainbridge Lane and Barrington Drive, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
When deputies arrived at about 7:30 p.m., they found Zachary Richard Conn, 28, in a car outside. Deputies told him to stay in the car, but he tried to run into a house on Bainbridge, according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office charging affidavit.
Deputies charged Conn with felony criminal mischief, felony grand theft and resisting arrest without violence. They also charged his father — 54-year-old Russell Edward Conn, who they'd heard yelling for his son to run into the house when police were trying to stop him — with resisting arrest without violence.
"The theft of the stop sign resulted in a temporary interruption of safe traffic control for the intersection and jeopardized the safety of the general public," a deputy wrote in a charging affidavit.
A Palm Coast Public Works employee told deputies that the sign post, which carried the stop sign and also the two street signs, will cost $500-$600 to replace once the cost of the materials and labor — including the time taken for a city employee to set up a temporary sign April 24 — are factored in.
