- May 2, 2024
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5:49 a.m. 200 block of Ocean Crest Drive
Burglary of a conveyance. A resort park left the beer/snack carts for its golf course unattended overnight. Local teenagers figured this out, and two of them snuck into the area containing the beer golf carts in the early morning hours together.
An employee noticed them, and they ran. One got away. Another pretended to be asleep on a park bench, until the employee approached him and asked if he was OK. The teen said yes, before running again.
When employees checked the beer cart, they found that some of the alcohol and snacks were missing.
Employees later found one of the teens — the 16-year-old who'd pretended to be asleep — snoozing on a couch in the lobby. A deputy told him he'd been identified as a suspect in the burglary.
He admitted he'd been a lookout for one of his friends, an 18-year-old, and said he'd fallen asleep waiting for his ride to pick him up.
Deputies found the 18-year-old friend in the parking lot, confirmed that he was the same suspect seen by the witnesses and in surveillance video, and arrested him.
7:50 a.m. Intersection of Beckenger Avenue and Jonathan Street
Grand theft. FPL contractors reported that somebody stole six 1,300-pound mats — each worth about $2,500 and used to support heavy equipment at construction sites so they don't get stuck in soft dirt or sand — from the contractors as they worked to replace light poles.
The mats, each about 8 feet wide by 13 feet long, disappeared from the job site between Nov. 4 and Nov. 9, an employee told deputies.
A deputy checked the area and saw the mats stacked in front of a nearby house. The homeowner, a man, said he'd gotten them from an unknown person who'd been collecting scrap metal and offered him the mats for free, and who'd said they were damaged and FPL was giving them away.
The deputy told him the mats were stolen and that the owner wanted them back. The man said he didn't want stolen goods on his property and agreed to have them removed.
12:22 a.m. 900 block of East Moody Boulevard.
Narcotics, driving with a suspended license. A deputy stopped a Toyota for an inoperable tag light. The driver appeared nervous, kept looking at his feet and gave the deputy a false name.
The deputy got the man out of the car and detained him, and noticed that he looked like he was trying to conceal his left foot.
There as a bulge in his left sock, and the deputy asked the man what it was. The man said it was soap. The deputy checked it and found that it was cocaine. The man, who'd also been driving on a suspended license, was arrested.
