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FTI Director’s Suspicions Lead to Arrest of 2 Boys, 14, One of Them Carrying Stun Gun

May 26, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Flagler Technical Institute Director Kevin McCarthy in his more staid role. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Technical Institute Director Kevin McCarthy’s lineage isn’t anything to trifle with. He’s the son of the late Bob McCarthy, who served as Flagler sheriff longer than the last two sheriffs’ four terms combined. He was an assistant principal at Flagler Palm Coast High School, where he was in charge of discipline. And he’s had his share of challenges as the head of the school district’s adult education division. So when he saw two boys who seemed out of place walking around his campus Wednesday, he knew something was amiss.


He recognized one of the boys as a student but not the other. Both boys were eventually arrested after a foot pursuit, one of them carrying a stun gun, pot, a glass pipe and cigars.

McCarthy had spotted the two boys, both 14, acting suspiciously and walking between Flagler Palm Coast High School and Flagler Technical Institute, whose grounds adjoin each other along State Road 100 in Palm Coast. The boys were trying to open the south gate to campus. When McCarthy approached them, one of them acknowledged not being a student at either school, and being from Daytona Beach. Neither could explain why they were on school property. They gave McCarthy changing stories.

By then McCarthy had contacted Cpl. Calvin Grant, the school resource deputy at FPC. As soon as Grant arrived, the two boys, according to their arrest reports, fled on foot toward the Target shopping center, ignoring Grant’s commands to stop. Grant followed. McCarthy was able to identify one of the two boys, who turned out to be a student in the district.

Grant followed the suspects into the shopping center, losing sight of one but seeing the other run into PetSmart. Grant found him hiding in the women’s rest room. He ordered him to come out. The boy complied, placing his hands on his head and walking out to be handcuffed and removed from the property.

A search of his book bag revealed cigars, an e-cigarette, a cell phone, an iPod and a tablet, along with a silver chain and gold chain. The boy “could not present proof of purchase for any of the electronic items,” the arrest report states, though generally no one is required to show such proof. Pot was also found in the bag. The boy, records showed, is currently on probation on a previous charge. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest without violence.

Another deputy was able to apprehend the other boy, who was also carrying a small amount of pot along with the glass pipe and the stun gun. A test of the stun gun showed it was functional. He was charged with felony possession or display of a weapon on school property and other misdemeanor drug charges. Both teens were booked into the Flagler County jail. One child was released to his parent and the other was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach.

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  1. Tom says

    May 26, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Bob McCarty would be proud of his son. Sheriff McCarthy was our last good sheriff.

  2. girl says

    May 27, 2016 at 7:13 am

    A good job all the way around… could have turned into a big problem if it wasn’t for Mr. McCarthy and Cpl. Grant.

  3. A.S.F. says

    May 28, 2016 at 12:14 am

    I hope the result of this will be increased supervision, more guidance and whatever professional help might be necessary to turn these young men around.

  4. Real says

    June 1, 2016 at 1:02 am

    Is this really news? Teenagers smoking pot and skipping school. Lock em up and throw away the key, right gramma and grampa community? Palm coast is like the community for your uncool grandparents who dont give presents and hang onto racism.

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