- January 3, 2025
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Not chickening out
7:54 p.m. — 600 block of Ocean Shore Boulevard, Flagler Beach
Trespass. A police officer was called to a restaurant and bar to trespass a woman who did not pay her $23 tab.
When the officer got to the restaurant, the woman was asking multiple other customers to pay her bill for her, according to her arrest report. The officer issued her a trespass warning and escorted her off the premises.
Less than an hour later, the officer returned to the restaurant because the woman had returned. When the officer arrived, the woman was sitting by the restaurant’s fireplace asking people for money and eating chicken.
She was arrested and taken to jail.
Five strikes
7:50 p.m. — 2200 block of State Road 100, Flagler Beach
Disorderly conduct. A Flagler Beach homeless man was arrested for disorderly conduct after being trespassed from five different locations.
The incidents started with the man being trespassed from a gas station at 1:41 a.m. after banging drunkenly on the windows. Later in the day, police officers trespassed the man from a restaurant on the Flagler Beach pier and the pier and boardwalk after the man harassed beachgoers and customers, the suspect’s arrest report said.
At 6:10 p.m., an officer was then called to a different gas station where the man was fighting with another homeless man. By the time the officer got there, the fighting had ended and the suspect was trespassed from there as well.
Within an hour, the suspect went to two more stores — one of which trespassed him — and then to a nearby park, where he was drinking a bottle of vodka and stomping around, yelling profanities. After almost a full day of interactions with police, the suspect was arrested.
Traffic stopper
9:18 a.m. — first block of Boulder Rock Drive, Palm Coast
Resist officer, fail to obey. A Palm Coast man was arrested for blocking traffic as he stopped in the street to accuse a Sheriff’s Office deputy in the middle of a traffic stop of blocking traffic.
The deputy heard someone yelling at him as he was talking to the driver he pulled over. Turning around, he saw a man driving a red Toyota stopped in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, according to an arrest report.
The Toyota driver asked the deputy if he was stupid and told him he needed to move the traffic stop somewhere else because he was blocking the road. The deputy asked the man to keep driving because the man was actually the one blocking traffic.
When the man continued to refuse to leave, the deputy told him to pull over. Instead, the man drove off, the report said. The suspect was pulled over minutes later by another deputy and arrested for leaving the scene of a traffic stop.
Mind on the money
2:41 a.m. — First block of Old Kings Road, Palm Coast
Possession of methamphetamine, marijuana. Deputies arrested a 28-year-old Miami man who was seen sleeping in his car in the parking lot of a local fast food restaurant.
The deputy reports he spotted a rolled marijuana cigarette container in the center console, at which point he woke the man up. The man said he was on his way to New Jersey to visit family, and that he'd stopped in Palm Coast to rest. He told the deputy that the container was for medical marijuana, but he wasn't carrying his medical marijuana card.
While conducting a search in the vehicle, the deputy also found two plastic bags containing methamphetamine inside two chocolate candy containers, according to the report.
The man said the meth, which he referred to as "product," was left in his car by other people; he said he worked as an Uber driver. When asked why he didn't get rid of it or contact law enforcement, the man said "honestly I was hoping to see if I could just sell it off in the streets to make a couple extra bucks."
Police found 1.26 grams of meth and 6 grams of marijuana in his car.
He was taken to jail.
Blooming love
9:57 p.m. — Intersection of Palm Coast Parkway, Belle Terre parkway, Palm Coast
Criminal mischief. A local homeless man was arrested after a Sheriff’s Office deputy caught him drawing a flower on a traffic sign in honor of his girlfriend.
The homeless man, 54, was known locally to the deputy, as well as his on-again, off-again relationship with his girlfriend, according to an arrest report. The drawing included a message to his girlfriend, saying the flower was hers and “only blooms once in a lifetime.”
The deputy approached the man to ask about the graffiti and the man originally denied drawing it, but then admitted to drawing on the sign.
The man said that as a taxpayer, he owns the sign and could draw on it if he wanted to, the report said.
Birthday blues
11:33 p.m. — Intersection of Belle Terre and Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast
DUI. A was Palm Coast man celebrating his birthday by driving around after an emergency curfew so he could find cigarettes.
The Sheriff’s Office had enacted an overnight curfew in response to the the hurricane that had passed through the area. A Sheriff’s Office deputy was on patrol when he saw a man making repeated U-turns from the middle lanes of an intersection just before midnight, well after the county’s curfew went into effect, according to a press release.
The deputy pulled the man and asked him why he was out after curfew. The man told the deputy that it was his birthday — he had just turned 57 — and he was trying to find a store open so he could buy cigarettes, the press release said.
As the man was talking, the deputy noticed the man’s speech was slurred and his eyes were red and dilated. He asked the man to step out of the vehicle and, after a sobriety test, the deputy arrested the man for driving under the influence. The man later admitted to eating marijuana edibles.
