- November 15, 2024
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Woman gets stolen phone back with GPS locator
8:15 p.m. First block of Piedmont Drive Palm Coast. Car break-in: Someone stole a tablet and an iPhone from a woman's unlocked car Jan. 5. Two days later, she called law enforcement and told a deputy that she'd gotten a GPS location for the iPhone. The GPS locator showed the phone at the home of a kid who was already on probation for another offense. When a deputy showed up at the door and sat the boy down at the dining room table, the boy initially denied knowing anything about the phone or tablet, but began changing his story when a deputy told him about the GPS locator, according to the deputy's report. Then the boy said someone else gave him the phone and tablet. But he couldn't give the deputy a good description of the supposed thief, or a phone number for him. "I provided (the boy) numerous opportunities to provide a more factual statement regarding this incident, but he was adamant what he provided previously was the truth," the deputy wrote in the report. The deputy found the phone on the boy's bed and the tablet at a nearby woodline, and returned both of them to their owner.
Thief bested by home appliance
11:51 a.m. First block of Roxland Lane. Burglary: A woman who was keeping an eye on a bank-owned house checked the property and discovered that a thief had stolen the fridge, dishwasher and stove, and ripped the microwave partway out of the wall. "It appeared that someone tried to tear the microwave out of its original location on the wall and couldn’t get it to come loose, and left it hanging there," a deputy wrote in a case report. Altogether, the stolen appliances were worth about $3,000. A similar crime was reported on Panorama Drive Jan. 5, where a thief stole a vacant home's stove, microwave and dishwasher.
