Submitted by Deborah Lavery Powers
Staff Reporter
The following are highlights from some recent narrative police report on file at the Fernandina Beach Police Department through 09 April 2013.
Three purses were stolen – one from each of three vehicles parked at Buccaneer Park (Beech Street) on the same evening. This turned out to be one those occasions when things didn’t work out as expected for the two owners who had locked their cars. The determined thieves smashed their car windows and took what they were after anyway. The third owner apparently left her car unlocked. The thieves simply opened up the trunk and took her pocketbook out, leaving the car undamaged. One purse was located under a nearby car — with blood on the straps. Samples of the dry blood were put into evidence.
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Someone left his/her camera bag (yes, with camera and all the accoutrements in it) near a bench at Main Beach. Due to kindness of a Fernandina Good Citizen, the bag — with accoutrements — may be claimed at Police Headquarters.
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A Temporary Order of Injunction prohibits a Person #1 from entering a restricted circumferential area around a Person #2. Our Person #1, apparently was hoping to communicate indirectly with Person #2 via third parties regarding some of his personal property. He said he didn’t understand that he couldn’t enter the restricted area in order to bring a third party (his uncle) within that area to speak to another third party (Person #2’s Mom). He now understands.
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It’s called “uttering forged bills” when you pay for your Bud Lights with money you KNOW is counterfeit. A gal “with dirty blond hair” in a coral top, along with a guy in a white shirt, white hat and white plaid shorts recently did that kind of “uttering” at a local bar and grill. Then left in an “older body style” white Chevrolet truck after getting $93 in change from their fake $100 bill. The couple, in all that coral and white, was easily identified when located at a convenience store just a mile up the road from the bar and grill they just left.
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The Tenant lost his $30,000-$50,000 antique coin collection when somebody stole the coins from his locked safe in his rented apartment here in town. Contractors hired by his Rental Company were the only people known to have entered the property during the time period in which the coins disappeared. Also stolen was a gold/onyx ring valued at $3000.
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The Victim showed “obvious” signs of the domestic violence she was reporting: two black eyes, a cut on her nose, a swollen forehead, and her clothes stained in blood. A dispute between Victim and her Boyfriend apparently started as a verbal argument inside a convenience store, escalated to the physical in the car outside, and then Boyfriend snatched Victim’s car keys and drove off in her vehicle. She took a taxi to the ER where she was treated and released — with possible broken facial and nose bones. Afterwards, when talking to Police, Victim appeared “very confused and showed signs of emotional stress,” and changed her mind (adamantly so) regarding pressing any charges against Boyfriend. And said she would refuse to cooperate with the State Attorney’s Office (SAO), as well. However, the Police will be forwarding their report to the SAO in order “to seek an arrest warrant” against Boyfriend.
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Girlfriend decided in the early morning hours that it was time to move out of the residence she and Boyfriend shared. She went to a female friend’s home. After the sun was up, Girlfriend sent her female friend back to Ex’s to pick up her clothes. Ex collected the clothes, put them in a bag, and then poured liquid clorox into the bag! He followed that up by smashing Former Girlfriend’s cell into the ground.
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Subject thought she was too intoxicated to drive home after consuming several alcoholic beverages downtown, so she grabbed a cab. Yet she was still arrested for driving under the influence. But how could that happen? Seems that when Subject got into the cab, there was another fare – Unknown Man – already inside. When the driver dropped her off at her house, Unknown Man got out of the taxi, as well! Subject didn’t want him at her house, so decided to drive him home. [Bad decision.] Police pulled her over when she made a wide left hand turn off Atlantic — so wide, as a matter of fact, that she drove up over the curb and almost hit a trashcan.”
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Victim mistakingly left her wallet in a taxicab. Someone found her wallet and used several of Victim’s credit cards before she cancelled them.
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A Citizen became involved in Internet Fraud by posting an ad on eBay at the email request of a Dishonest Person he didn’t know. And didn’t check out. The steps involved in the scam get rather convoluted when trying to summarize them, so let’s just say that our Citizen became aware that something was terribly wrong when he started receiving numerous email complaints from people claiming they hadn’t received the article they ordered from him on eBay. Our Citizen then discovered that Dishonest Person doesn’t have a legitimate eBay account and was simply “using him” to post the ad and scam the customers.
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The loud Patron, with his blood-shot eyes, left the restaurant before Police arrived. But that doesn’t mean he went home! Less than 20 minutes later, he was reported trying to fight his way into a bar just down the street from the restaurant. Police tried to encourage him to take a cab and go home. He didn’t. He instead chose to “up” the intensity of his bad behavior and earned himself a ride to the Nassau County Jail: disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest.
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Shoplifter paid for the jewelry item she picked out, but neglected to pay for the $22.50 pair of sunglasses she had put on top of her head under her own sunglasses. She was transported to jail.
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An untagged motorcycle was observed traveling 93 mph in a 30 mph zone just after midnight on the 5th of April. Driver and Passenger eluded Police and County Deputies that night. On the 6th, just before 5 a.m., the pair was picked up at a local convenience store. Driver admitted to the offenses involved, but actively resisted being arrested, repeatedly telling officers that he couldn’t go back to jail; In his determination to escape, because he “wouldn’t go back,” he aggressively lunged at the officers, grabbing one by the arms and legs. In spite of multiple warnings to stop resisting, Driver’s refused to do so, and he was Taser’d. The charges against him included “Resisting Arrest with Violence, Driving without a License with Prior Knowledge, No Motorcycle Endorsement, and Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer.”
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An out-of-town Visitor had the side of his car damaged by a beer bottle. For no apparent reason. The broken glass had been swept up by the time Police arrived to view the two small dents.
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Editor’s Note: After a career in adult education, where writing, course design and development were her “beat”, Deborah now enjoys the world of freelancing, and volunteering. We thank Deborah for her contributions.
April 11, 2013 6:05 a.m.