Palm Coast man tries to destroy marijuana blunt with his foot after traffic stop

May 12

Step on it

2:18 p.m. — Intersection of Palm Coast Parkway and Pine Lakes Parkway, Palm Coast

Tampering with evidence in criminal proceeding. Deputies arrested a 42-year-old Palm Coast man who attempted to destroy the remnants of a marijuana blunt after the car he was in was pulled over for having a dark window tint and driving without his headlights while it was raining.

According to his arrest report, after initiating the traffic stop, the deputy observed the man, who was sitting in the driver side rear passenger seat, “moving frantically within the vehicle.” The deputy asked him why he was moving so much, to which the man said he had dropped his ash tray and there were ashes everywhere.

The deputy noted a slight odor of burnt cannabis coming from the car, and spotted an ash tray and half-burnt blunt on the floor. He watched as the man tried to destroy the blunt with his foot. 

He was taken to jail. 

May 17

Domestic dispute

9:10 p.m. — First block of Forest Hill Drive, Palm Coast

Battery on a law enforcement officer. A 51-year-old Palm Coast woman was arrested after she struck a deputy’s arm while yelling at her boyfriend.

Deputies report they were dispatched to the home after the woman called, wishing for her boyfriend to leave her home due to infidelity, according to her arrest report. The boyfriend told deputies that the woman had seen him texting a friend and assumed it had been another woman, at which point she punched him in the face and took his cell phone. The deputy reported the man had no visible injuries.

As the deputy was speaking with him, the woman came out to the back patio and began yelling at him to leave. A deputy instructed her to step back and stop yelling, and the woman told him this was her house and the deputy couldn’t tell her what to do. She then slapped him on his left forearm.

She was taken to jail.