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FlaglerLive | February 21, 2012
William Merrill, 32, was inspecting a rifle at his home at 94 Covington Lane in Palm Coast when his weapon went off. His 30-year-old wife Stefanie was struck in the chest and killed.
FlaglerLive | February 20, 2012
Two more reports of pitbull attacks–dog-on-dog, and dog-on-disabled-man, but the latter without injuries; Facebook suspicions trigger a fight; an altercation at the courthouse; smashed windows at Imagine Chool, and too many lesser incidents to count.
FlaglerLive | February 17, 2012
The arrest warrant states that Sahmi Green walked a friend’s female pit bull behind a house and stabbed it seven times. He initially claimed the dog had been in a fight.
FlaglerLive | February 16, 2012
Conviction for attempted murder can mean a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Kenneth Peters had gone to the victim’s house to obtain Oxycodone, the pain-relieving narcotic, when the encounter deteriorated. Both men involved have previous records.
FlaglerLive | February 15, 2012
The house at 20 Princeton Lane in Palm Coast had 24 young marijuana plants. Florida is still among the states with the harshest anti-pot laws in the county, though some 20 states have either decriminalized pot possession or legalized its medical uses.
FlaglerLive | February 14, 2012
A police chase on Belle Terre is suspended for safety’s sake–but the suspect is arrested anyway after he crashes his car, a female pit bull is fatally stabbed, a deer crashes into the Sub Base shop window, a middle school student brings tequila in a Tupperware to school.
FlaglerLive | February 13, 2012
Heroin problems in Palm Coast: Three heroin arrests in 36 hours have Flagler County Sheriff Don Fleming warning that the crackdown on pill mills may be provoking a rise in heroin use and trafficking.
FlaglerLive | February 10, 2012
Palm Coast and Flagler County blotter report: a man on Slowdrift Lane threatens to shoot a dog and fires his rifle at a wall much used to the treatment. He ends up in jail. A traffic stop turns into a Hydrocodone bust. And more.
FlaglerLive | February 6, 2012
A man is jailed for allegedly beating up his wife and bruising his 10-year-old daughter, a pair of alleged shoplifters from Port Orange are caught in the act at the Palm Coast Target, and innumerable lesser incidents.
FlaglerLive | February 4, 2012
Palm Coast’s Holiday Inn Express, a three-story, 81-room hotel, was evacuated this afternoon when sprinklers went off on the second floor. Guests were invited to register at the nearby Hampton Inn.
FlaglerLive | February 2, 2012
A 60-year-old man has been in the hospital for the past two days, recovering from a brutal attack at European Village Tuesday afternoon that left him needing 50 staples and more stitches to his head and face.
FlaglerLive | January 29, 2012
The Navy has been conducting bombing runs on 5,760 acres of the Pinecastle Impact Range in the Ocala National Forest since late January. In cool weather, sounds travel farther.
FlaglerLive | January 24, 2012
A violent few days as angry men are arrested for aggravated battery, including violence on (and biting) cops, a noise complaint leads to two arrests over an underage drinking party on Brooklyn Lane, and a rash of car windows are smashed around town, their contents stolen.
FlaglerLive | January 12, 2012
The 14-year-old was riding in a car with his cousin early Saturday morning when another car pulled up and someone fired five to seven shots, injuring the 14-year-old in the hand.
FlaglerLive | December 22, 2011
Danielle Annis, 17, and Amanda Hunt, 15, residents of a home on Ocean Crest Drive in the Hammock in Palm Coast, faked their own abduction and stole their parents’ car Wednesday evening. Charges against them may be pending.
FlaglerLive | December 21, 2011
Gregory Wright, a resident of the Mondex, didn’t want a cat sharing his bed with his girlfriend because of dander, though that was only one pretext leading to an alleged series of violent outbursts, threats and a case of false imprisonment.
FlaglerLive | December 15, 2011
Edward La Troy, a 34-year-old resident of Miami, had been ticketed for speeding less than three hours earlier by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when the Flagler County Sheriff’s Carmine Celico stopped him and summoned a K9 that sniffed out the drugs.
FlaglerLive | December 14, 2011
The house where four young children lived was strewn with dog waste and infested with roaches. Deputies had first investigated the scene in late July.
FlaglerLive | December 10, 2011
Two men driving east at a recklessly dangerous speed on SR100 this morning smashed their car then triggered a foot and air chase before being caught by Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies.
FlaglerLive | December 9, 2011
Michael Testa, 21, who escaped from a cop car where he’d been held after being stopped on suspicions of dealing in stolen property, had just finished writing a statement and was complaining that his bond amount would keep him in jail forever.
FlaglerLive | December 8, 2011
Mike Saunders, 28, was found dead in his car in the Walmart parking lot Wednesday, of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. He had been at the wheel of the same car, with Mochael Testa, when Testa was arrested near Marvin’s Gardens the day before–and escaped from a cop car.
FlaglerLive | December 5, 2011
Richard Lorusso, 44, of Pine Crest Lane in Palm Coast, is accused of torturing his wife for four hours–beating her, cutting her, spitting on her and keeping her prisoner–before he fled the scene and turned himself in to authorities two hours later.
FlaglerLive | November 30, 2011
It’s not even spring: juvenile fights at Epic Theater and Ralph Carter Park, a Volkswagen stolen from the Target parking lot crashes soon afterward, plus the usual larcenies, burglaries and drunk drivers.
FlaglerLive | November 10, 2011
Angela Wray worked as Celico Auto Body’s bookkeeper and secretary from January 2007 to December 2010, committing 127 individual acts of thefts, according to the FDLE, and cashing checks or paying personal bills at various banks or financial institutions.
FlaglerLive | November 7, 2011
Edward Parker, 18, of the Mondex, was preparing for a run when his son began crying. The child was taken to the hospital with a brain hemorrhage, a contusion to the eye and a fractured femur.
FlaglerLive | November 6, 2011
A car stolen at Florida Hospital Flagler (and recovered), an arrest at McCharacter’s turns violent, a fight at Finn’s turns violent, too, horny Halloween teen shoplifters, and more.
FlaglerLive | November 3, 2011
Todd Blanchard of Jacksonville was stopped just north of the Palm Coast Parkway Wednesday morning as he drove shirtless and allegedly masturbating a 14-year-old Orlando runaway in the passenger seat.
FlaglerLive | October 30, 2011
Squatters arrested on Milwaukee Ave., chasing an undocumented alien in Holland Park, midnight obscenities in the Mondex, a probation violation on speed, and the usual thefts from unlocked cars.
FlaglerLive | October 28, 2011
The house at 20 Rockne Lane is in foreclosure and severely damaged inside, and was allegedly used for minor drug activity. Five people were arrested there.
FlaglerLive | October 27, 2011
Ronald Pinkerton, 68, was chased by Port Orange, Holly Hill, Ormond Beach, Volusia and Flagler cops early Thursday before finally be stopped by Flagler deputies and taken to jail, his face lacerated and bloodied.
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