Flagler 911

On September 15, it was an 11-year-old boy at Rymfire Elementary. On Sept. 25, it was a 12-year-old at Indian Trails Middle School: same method–threats made in a group chat away from school, images of weaponry sent to make the point–same result: an arrest and a felony charge. The two boys had been arguing in the chat that afternoon. Then NG sent the picture of a box of 15 knives and a brass knuckle and made threatening statements

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office this afternoon announced the arrest of three Live Oak teens on armed burglary charges stemming from a series of car break-ins and burglaries on Flagler County’s west side in late August, when the men got away with several firearms, some cash and a few credit cards. Two of the three men are in Georgia, the third in Suwanee County. All three were served Flagler County arrest warrants. 

The Flagler County Sheriff is investigating a series of burglaries and break-ins that took place the night of Aug. 28 to 29 on the west side of Flagler County, targeting vehicles at multiple properties in an area of the county rarely associated with such crime sprees. Two firearms and wallets were among the items reported stolen. The Sheriff’s Office is not releasing the addresses. The thefts took place in the area of County Road 305, County Road 302, County Road 15, and State Road 100, targeting properties on those roads and smaller roads in between. 

Cherie Ford, 44, was re-arrested months after being sentenced to probation on a charge of battering a cop, this time on five felony charges, including a second-degree felony charge of child neglect causing great harm and a third-degree felony charge of child abuse. The arrest was a probation violation, so she faces a felony count for that as well, and two felony battery counts–felonies, because they are her third cuch charge following convictions on similar charges. 

A 50-year-old Palm Coast resident was arrested and booked at the Flagler County jail on a speeding charge–going over 50 miles per hour above the posted speed limit. The driver was going 90 in a 35 near Varn Park on State Road A1A, north of Beverly Beach. He faces up to 30 days in jail, a $500 fine or both if convicted on the second-degree misdemeanor. He is also required to appear at a hearing under the state’s new “Super Speeder Law,” which went into effect on July 1.

William Karl Krivanek, a 43-year-old resident of Comanche Court in Palm Coast, is at the Flagler County jail on $200,000 bond following his arrest on four felony charges stemming from a domestic violence incident, including a count of aggravated assault causing bodily harm. Krivanek was on probation for a charge of felony battery. He went by the alias “Bedlam.” 

Chad David Langlois, the 45-year-old man accused of carjacking a woman at the Palm Coast RaceTrac on State Road 100 five years ago, was extradited from Georgia, where he had been imprisoned on separate charges, to face charges in Flagler County. He could face up to 65 years in prison locally. He was serving 15 in Georgia.

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols sentenced Palm Coast’s Devarus Oshay Bethea, 38, to 14 years in prison, by far his longest of his four prison sentences since 2010, with an additional five years he gets to serve concurrently. Bethea pleaded to trafficking fentanyl, a first-degree felony, and unlawful use of a communication device, a third-degree felony. He could have faced 35 years in prison and $100,000 fine. The fine was waived. He spoke to the judge of the latin root for the word “remorse” in hopes of mitigating his sentence.

Last Oct. 24, Janet Sterry died at a hospital in Palm Coast. She was 76. Last week, her 56-year-old son, Thomas Frazzetto of White Star Drive in Palm Coast, was arrested on a felony charge of grand theft and a felony charge of fraud. He’d faked his late mother’s signature on a series of checks in November and made a half dozen electronic transfers out of her bank account in October and November, allegedly stealing some $9,000 before family members got an alert from the bank: someone was attempting to cash a $51,200 check.