- November 15, 2024
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Jessica Conti really didn't want any cheese on her garlic knots.
And when Palm Coast Pizza gave her a box of garlic knots with cheese, Conti and a group of friends threw a tantrum — shoving the cash register to the floor, barging into the kitchen and "throwing pizza boxes and food everywhere," according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office report.
"Looks like cheese on her garlic knots was way too much for her to handle, and she and her friends had the opportunity to spend some time in our version of adult timeout (jail)," Sheriff's Office Spokesman Jim Troiano wrote in an email to the local press.
The melee happened at around 9:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19 after Conti, a 25-year-old Palm Coast resident, ordered garlic knots at the Palm Coast Pizza at 1775 Palm Harbor Parkway.
They had cheese on them.
She demanded her money back, but "felt she was being disrespected" by the way an employee plunked the money down on the counter, and "became more irate."
Then three young men came into the pizzeria — 32-year-old Shawn Cody, 26-year-old Hareem Jones and 23-year-old Vincent Conti, all of whom live at the same Leidel Drive address as Jessica Conti — and pushed the pizza shop's cash register and fax machine off the counter onto the floor.
The four then burst into the kitchen through a closed door and began slinging pizza boxes and food all over the place. "At some point, a glass parmesan cheese was thrown at the lobby area, resulting in damage," according to the report.
The four were gone by the time the cops showed up, but one of two customers who saw the whole thing knew the miscreants and told deputies who they were. The pizza shop's surveillance camera also caught their tantrum on video.
A deputy showed up at their house, and "They knew why I was there," the deputy wrote in the report.
Deputies jailed all four and charged each of them with criminal mischief and burglary of an occupied structure. Of the four, only Jones had been arrested before in Flagler County — for driving without a license in 2015, according to jail records.
The damage to the pizza shop was estimated to be less than $1,000.
