- September 16, 2024
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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.
On bad behavior
1:43 a.m. — 400 block of South Ocean Shore Boulevard, Flagler Beach
Disorderly conduct. A Beverly Beach man who refused to cooperate with police went from being trespassed from a store to arrested for disorderly conduct.
The police were called out to a gas station because of a man yelling at the store clerk about store’s cooked food. The clerk told police that the suspect began calling her a racist when she told him to leave, according to an arrest report.
She said another patron even had to get between her and the suspect when he lunged at her as she was calling 911.
When the officer spoke with the suspect in the parking lot to file a trespassing report, the suspect refused to cooperate and attempted to leave with his uncle. The officer told him he had to stay, but the suspect instead said the officer would lose his qualified immunity because the suspect works at the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The suspect continued to yell at the officer and try to leave and the officer placed the man in handcuffs and had to forcefully put him in the back of the patrol car, the report said.
