COPS CORNER: Breaking in for booze

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July 25

Breaking in for booze

6:14 p.m. 200 block of Parkview Drive

Residential burglary. A woman arrived home at about 6 p.m. and notice two local kids running down the road as she approached. 

The kids came back and told her that they'd been walking by her home when they saw five kids about 10 or 11 years old running out of her home.

The woman checked her house: The liquor cabinet above her fridge was open. She keeps it closed. She wasn't sure if the kids got any of the alcohol.

Deputies are investigating. 

 

July 26

Souped up

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. 5400 block of North Oceanshore Boulevard

Larceny. A woman was shopping in the soup aisle of a local grocery store when an unfamiliar woman walked up and started talking to her about different types of soup.

The shopper found the conversation odd, but didn't think much of it until she got to the register, reached for her wallet, and realized it was gone. She'd had her purse sitting in her cart when the suspicious soup enthusiast had approached her.

Deputies checked surveillance footage. It showed that while the soup enthusiast distracted the shopper, a man who'd entered the store with the soup woman snuck up behind the shopper and grabbed her wallet from her purse. 

The shopper was able to cancel her cards before the thieves tried, unsuccessfully, to charge $1,100 on one of them at a Walmart.

 

Aug. 4

For a friend

3:03 a.m. Palm Coast Parkway at Colbert Lane. 

Narcotics. A deputy stopped a car for an inoperable tail light. The driver was on probation for drug crimes, so the deputy asked to search her purse. She said no, but then started dumping everything out of it.

The deputy noticed that she removed a glasses case and kept it with her the whole time.

The deputy asked her what was in it. She said nothing, but then refused to let the deputy search it. Once the deputy did, he found a pipe and a baggy of methamphetamines inside. The woman said it belonged to a friend. The deputy arrested her.

 

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