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Bunnell’s Charles Cowart Jr. Arrested Again, For Allegedly Stealing 15 Flags in 3 Cities

February 26, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Images released by the Sheriff's Office of the flags Charles Cowart Jr. is alleged to have stolen over two years from Palm Coast, Bunnell and Flagler Beach.

Charles Cowart Jr. is accused of stealing enormous flags from Palm Coast Parkway and Indian Trails Sports Complex, among others. He’s been arrested many times for doing strange things.

Charles Cowart Jr., Just Released From Jail on Dropped Charges, Is Arrested For Burglary

May 7, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Charles Cowart during a court appearance in November 2012. (© FlaglerLive)

Charles Cowart Jr. was accused of breaking into a Cowart family-owned house in Flagler Beach Monday evening–the same house where part of the incidents that led police to investigate Cowart and three other men on rape and kidnapping charges had unfolded in March 2013. Those charges were dropped last week.

Hunting Camp Rape Case: Conflicting Details Emerge as 4th Suspect Turns Himself In and 2 Bond Out

November 6, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

As Frank Goggans turned himself in at the Flagler County jail Wednesday and promptly bonded out (as had his brother Daniel), extensive and lurid details from investigators’ interviews with the two brothers and a third suspect have emerged in the case of the alleged gang rape of a woman in Flagler Beach and at the Cowart Hunting Camp on March 20.

Third Suspect in Hunting Camp Rape Case Surrenders, One Still at Large: Frank Goggans

November 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Shortly after midnight this morning, Kurt Benjamin, the third of four suspects in the alleged rape of a woman at the Cowart Hunting Camp on March 20, was booked in at the Flagler County jail. Frank Goggans remains at large.

Hunting Camp Rape: Charles Cowart Turns Himself In; U.S. Marshals Hunting For 3 Remaining Suspects

October 31, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Charles “Skeeter” Cowart, one of the four men wanted in the alleged kidnapping and gang-rape of a woman in Flagler Beach and at the Cowart Hunting Camp in western Flagler County on March 20, turned himself in at the Flagler County jail early Thursday afternoon. U.S. Marshals are hunting for the remaining three suspects–Daniel and Frank Goggans, of 65 Leidel Drive in Palm Coast, and Kurt Benjamin of 31 Poinsettia Lane in Palm Coast.

Four Flagler Men Sought in Kidnapping and Gang Rape of a Woman at Cowart Hunting Camp

October 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff is looking for four men accused of kidnapping a woman they’d encountered at Finn’s bar in Flagler Beach and gang-raping her at the Cowart Hunting Camp in western Flagler County on March 20. The men are Charles L. Cowart of west Bunnell, Daniel and Frank Goggans, and Kurt Benjamin, of Palm Coast.

Plea in the Works for Charles Cowart, Who Was Chased Through Bunnell on Horseback

November 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Charles Cowart, the 29-year-old man who led police on a chase through Bunnell as he rode a horse through town the afternoon of Sept. 24, was jailed again on a public intoxication charge Nov. 20, but will likely not face trail on the four felony and misdemeanor charges he incurred in September.

Videos of Horse Chase Through Bunnell, Just Released, Show Rider at a Gallop

September 28, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Three surveillance videos catch glimpses of Charles Cowart as he rode a horse through various parts of Bunnell on Tuesday, particularly South Bunnell, as cop cars chase him and crowds gather.

Horseman, Termed Drunk, Takes Bunnell Police on Long Chase Through the City

September 25, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

Charles Cowart, 29, was arrested and charged with charged with disorderly conduct and cruelty to animals, among other charges, after the chase forced a train to stop and brought various parts of Bunnell to a brief, gaping standstill.

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