- December 26, 2024
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1:38 p.m. — 5100 block of State Road 100 East, Palm Coast
Retail theft. Two Palm Coast men are facing felony retail theft charges after they were caught stealing almost $800 worth of merchandise from the same department store a month’s time.
The suspects were immediately recognized by loss prevention officers when they entered the store and took reusable bags from a register, according to an arrest report. The officers then followed the two through the store through the store’s surveillance cameras.
Surveillance footage showed the two picking over 30 items from the health and beauty section and another 20 items from the sporting good section, the report said. This theft totaled $596. In late September, the two were recorded on surveillance footage stealing $198 of merchandise.
Most of the items stolen were shampoos, conditioners, soaps and bicycle accessories, the report said.
Together the thefts totaled $795, the report said. When deputies arrived, the two were placed under arrest. One suspect told the deputies that he stole the items so he could later sell them himself going door-to-door to make some extra money.
6:31 p.m. — 6200 block of North Ocean Shore Boulevard, Palm Coast
Battery. A 69-year-old Palm Coast man was arrested for battery after he attacked his neighbor for arguing with him over drinking a beer next to the pool.
The two are residents in the same apartment complex and earlier that morning the suspect was sitting poolside drinking from a glass beer bottle, according to an arrest report. The neighbor, who was also at the pool, told the suspect he wasn’t allowed to have the glass bottle by the pool.
Later that day, the neighbor was sitting on his patio furniture outside his front door when the suspect walked up and sat down next to him. The neighbor later told Sheriff’s Office deputies that the suspect started insulting him and being confrontational and refused to leave when the neighbor asked him to.
At the point the neighbor got up to go inside his apartment and the suspect stood up and began bumping the neighbor with his chest, pushing him into a corner, the report said. The neighbor said that’s when the suspect charged at him, sending both to the ground with the suspect on top of him. Another neighbor who came outside to investigate separated the two and the neighbor went inside to call 911.
