- December 20, 2024
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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.
Road rager
11:24 a.m. — 800 block of Palm Coast Parkway, Palm Coast
Battery. A Palm Coast man caused another man to rear-end his car during a road-rage incident.
The two men were turning onto Palm Coast Parkway when the suspect cut the victim off, forcing both to stop at the intersection, according to an arrest report. The suspect got out of his car and walked over to the other car and hit the other driver across the face.
The hit surprised the victim, causing him to take his foot off the break, and the victim’s car rolled forward into the suspect’s car. When the victim got out to look at the damage, the suspect shoved the man backward, the report said.
The victim decided to leave the scene and called 911 to report the road rage as he left. He later told a Sheriff’s Office deputy that he left to deescalate the situation. As the victim left the scene, the suspect also called 911 to report a hit and run.
After talking to both parties, the Sheriff’s Office deputy arrested the suspect on battery charges.
