COPS CORNER

APRIL 24 GRUMPY GRANNY

9:45 p.m. — First block of Kingswood Drive, Palm Coast Resisting arrest without violence. Deputies arrested a 66-year-old woman who was refusing to cooperate.

The woman was in a gas station attempting to find a new charging cord for her phone by taking the cables out of their boxes and trying them, according to her arrest report. When the store clerk told her she couldn’t do that, she told the clerk, “Call the police.”

When deputies arrived, the woman identified herself by handing a deputy an expired Washington, D.C. ID card issued in the 1980s, according to the report. The woman refused to allow the deputy to take her fingerprints or photo for identification. Deputies arrested her.

APRIL 25

DONUT DO THIS control and hit the light pole, which was not damaged.

2:52 p.m. — First block of Riverside Drive, Ormond Beach Reckless driving. Police were dispatched to the scene of a hit and run after a man doing “donuts” in the parking lot of a historic structure crashed into a light pole.

Security footage showed the car enter the grass parking lot before performing “donuts” in multiple directions, according to a police report.

But the man, later identified by his license plate as a 29-year-old from Ormond Beach, continued doing donuts until he almost hit a fence, then drove off.

When police attempted to locate him, they instead found his mother’s fiancé, who told officers the man dropped off his vehicle at a repair shop after allegedly running into coquina rock.

Police eventually located the man, who told them his actions were “due to lust for a girl,” according to the report. He was taken to jail.

APRIL 26 THE ROYAL TREATMENT

2:10 p.m. — 1000 block of Mason Avenue, Daytona Beach

Assist agency. A 41-year-old Daytona Beach man was taken to the local police department by a neighboring agency for a breath test after he was arrested for drunk driving.

The man “had extreme difficulty standing unassisted,” according to a police report. When officers tried to get him out of an officer’s patrol vehicle, the man tried to lie down in the back of the patrol car with his shorts around his ankles. Eventually, officers got him into the station.

During the observation phase before the breath test, the man praised and thanked officers, saying they were “treating [him] like a princess,” accord ing to the report. He admitted to driving drunk, but was never hostile or aggressive toward the officers. Instead, he offered to take care of them if they swung by his workplace. Following the breath test, which confirmed that the man was drunk, the man was taken to the arresting officer’s police department.

APRIL 28

THE MAN WHO CRIED WOLF

8:29 p.m. — 6600 block of Tangerine Avenue, Bunnell False report of a crime. A man was arrested for falsely reporting a crime — his third such charge in five months. Deputies were called out to the man’s home in Bunnell because he claimed his “old lady” had a gun and was threatening to shoot him, according to his arrest report.

The woman, though, told deputies that she had not owned a gun in several years. She said she had been avoiding the man because he was in a bad mood, even leaving the porch while he was there — a claim the couple’s Ring camera footage confirmed.

The woman told deputies that the man sometimes makes false reports when he is drunk.

The man’s arrest history showed he had been arrested twice since December for making a false report of a crime, among other charges. Deputies ultimately arrested the man instead of the woman and took him to jail.

On Monday, May 29 the City of Palm Coast will host a Memorial Day Ceremony to honor the men & women who gave their lives in service to this country. It begins at 8am at Heroes Memorial Park.