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James Shepard, 50, of Palm Coast was found driving a truck with a stolen license plate and a refrigerator in his truck bed during a traffic stop, according to St. Johns deputies.
A 14-year-old Palm Coast girl faces serious charges after deputies said she posted a “disturbing“ video on Snapchat that threatened students at her former school, according to a news release.
Veteran Flagler County Sheriff’s Office detective Joe O’Barr has a wake-up call for anyone thinking of starting off the New Year by making a fake threat against a school: You’re not gonna get away with it.
Flagler and St. Johns County deputies are searching for the occupants of a blue Ferrari, which they say led deputies on a chase on I-95 in Flagler County.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is fighting back with firepower – $355,000 against the hate directed at Jewish people here in Central Florida.
Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI are set to hold a meeting Wednesday to help parents and guardians on how to keep their children safe from the internet.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly announced an 11-year-old was arrested in connection with a series of “swatting” threats made this year against several schools.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office has the ability to get quicker results from DNA tests on people arrested for serious crimes, like felonies, according to News 6 partner News4JAX.
A vehicle used in a drive-by shooting in Bunnell has been found, but authorities are still searching for two gunmen involved.
Four Central Florida sheriffs will continue to lead their respective law enforcement agencies after getting no opponents for their reelection races this week.
A Flagler County deputy was attacked Wednesday morning, leading to a standoff that has Forsythe Lane near Palm Coast shut down, according to the sheriff.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly revealed "Prepared Live," a software that 911 dispatchers use to access callers' cell phone cameras, has been utilized by Flagler County dispatchers 149 times since the Sheriff's Office purchased it in February 2023.
Flagler County Schools said beginning Monday, May 20, if parents kept their children out of school in light of the events last week, it will be marked as an administrative excused absence.
Flagler County deputies responded Friday to a middle school targeted by a threatening phone call for a fourth day in a row, according to the sheriff’s office.
Addressing parents directly, the sheriff’s office said it understands their concerns and is working with Flagler Schools to provide updates “as this caller continues to disrupt school operations.”
When convicted felons are released from state prison, they must provide the Florida Department of Corrections with an address where they intend to live and then must register with the sheriff's office in that county. But that's it. In Flagler County however, Sheriff Rick Staly goes beyond that requirement.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday morning alerted the public to a heavy law enforcement presence outside the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell over a “suspicious package,” clearing the scene after several hours once a bomb squad confirmed it was just a box of newspapers.
The Flagler County administrator this week told the school district that the county wants to pull out of its 50-50 agreement to pay for deputies on campus.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly held a news conference Wednesday to discuss “Operation Heartbreaker.”
Deputies said they responded to Casa Montessori School in Palm Coast after receiving reports of a “suspicious person” who was spotted trying to open several vehicles.
Miller told Staly she was a dancer at a strip club in Daytona Beach and had been at a bachelor party with “some other girls” in Putnam County all night.
Sheriff’s deputies in Flagler County arrested the father of the suspect accused of shooting an 18-month-old last year, accusing him of staging the crime scene and disposing of evidence to cover up the crime for his son.
Two months after an 18-month-old child was shot and killed in Palm Coast, the Flagler County sheriff announced an arrest in the case Thursday afternoon.
The state attorney’s office and detectives in Flagler, Orange and Osceola counties are seeking additional victims of a 25-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting teens.
A News 6 investigation uncovered state and local leaders are very close to finalizing an agreement, which would relocate the Florida State Guard training facility to Flagler County.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly applauded the response by Palm Coast and the county after Thursday’s storm damaged several homes.
A 16-year-old student bit a Matanzas High School staff member who was trying to break up a fight, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested after threatening with a fake gun to shoot two fellow students at Flagler Palm Coast High School, according to the sheriff’s office.
Upon discovery of the transfer, the district then began an internal investigation, working alongside the FBI and the sheriff’s office, the release states.
A Florida man wearing only socks and a “small covering wrapped around his waist” was arrested after multiple hit-and-run crashes, according to sheriff’s officials.
As more police departments and sheriff’s offices upgrade their body cameras to include livestreaming capabilities, more officers and deputies are using that feature regularly, even daily.
The Flagler County school board will vote Tuesday on whether it should arm school staff members. The district said the guardian program would supplement school resource officers if an active shooter came to campus.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday nine people were indicted for trafficking drugs across Central Florida, Arizona and California.
A 10-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a “realistic looking” airsoft gun to Wadsworth Elementary School and showed it off to his classmates, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
A 10-year-old boy is being hailed a hero after alerting his school resource officer of what he thought was an abduction one morning before school.
Law enforcement responded to a home in Palm Coast on Monday after a fugitive held himself up in his home, according to Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly.
Flagler County deputies swarmed a “drug house” in Bunnell on Friday that was set up at a trailer, arresting the man who lived there, according to the sheriff’s office.
A Homeowners Association president who hid cameras in a Flagler condo last year has pleaded guilty to his charges, according to new court records.
Jevante Hamilton, who was convicted of manslaughter for the fentanyl overdose death of another man, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Paul Ibelli was honored by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, credited with fighting off a shooter last November in a nightclub.
A man accused of shooting his girlfriend nearly two years ago is now facing a murder charge after her recent death, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly awarded 23-year-old David Ghiloni with the sheriff's office's lifesaving award after Ghiloni fought off a shooter last month at Smiles Nite Club.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested after making mass-shooting threats against a school he previously attended, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Rick Staly announced the arrest of 18 people following an 11-month-long operation targeting drugs in Flagler County.
A Palm Coast man shot at several at a bar after he put a woman in a headlock and pointed a gun at her head, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
The Homeowners Association president of the Las Brisas Condo Association in the Matanzas Shores community accused of hiding a camera in the master bedroom of a condo faces additional charges of video voyeurism after a third victim was identified, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
A 52-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after deputies found him with enough fentanyl to "potentially kill over 100,000 people," according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
The Homeowners Association president of the Las Brisas Condo Association in the Matanzas Shores community has been arrested on allegations that he installed a hidden camera inside the master bedroom of a condominium, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
An accused Flagler County drug dealer got a big surprise over the weekend when deputies say he accidentally texted a county commissioner to try to sell drugs.
A 33-year-old Palm Coast woman was arrested Thursday after witnesses saw her shave a girl's head, write derogatory words on her face and shove a metal pipe in her mouth, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
A man wanted for failing to appear in Texas court was booked in Flagler County on Tuesday after deputies responding to a call regarding his “aggressive” door-to-door sales tactics in Palm Coast discovered an out-of-state warrant in his name, officials said.
The Flagler County said a team of anthropologists are piecing together the skeletal fragments of what they believe is only one person after human remains were discovered at a Palm Coast construction site earlier this month.
Excavation has stopped at a Palm Coast construction site where human remains were found this week until a team of experts can arrive to assist.
Human remains were unearthed during a construction project Tuesday in Palm Coast, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office operation took enough fentanyl off the streets to kill off the population of Palm Coast, according to Sheriff Rick Staly.
The Flagler County sheriff will be undergoing surgery after he injured his knee while executing a search warrant in April, according to the sheriff’s office.
Flagler County deputies arrested an Ormond Beach man last week accused of failing to register as a sex offender after they found him working on their construction site.
The fourth suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Bunnell earlier this year was arrested Thursday, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Three men face first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of two Bunnell 16-year-olds killed over a “beef between two groups,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said at a news briefing Tuesday.
Two fugitive men in Flagler County were caught by law enforcement Wednesday after facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault and animal torture, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
After receiving a federal grant for almost $600,000, the Flagler County sheriff converted two sections of the jail to begin helping inmates with their addiction - if they agree to take the help.
Dyllan Lemoine, 21, was arrested on suspicion of “lewd and lascivious battery” after a sexually explicit video spread involving Lemoine and a 13-year-old girl, according to a release from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
A large law enforcement presence gathered within a gated community in Flagler County on Sunday as sheriff’s office officials said they responded to an armed domestic case in Palm Coast Plantation.
A 25-year-old man is facing an animal cruelty charge after deputies accused him of shooting a dog in the face Saturday at a Palm Coast home, according to the sheriff’s office.
A driver was shot and wounded during an apparent case of road rage on I-95 in Flagler County, sheriff's officials say.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest Thursday of a 15-year-old accused of shooting and killing a 19-year-old at a party in Palm Coast.
A Flagler County Schools bus driver is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol with around 40 middle schoolers on board Wednesday, deputies said.
A 19-year-old man died Saturday morning after he was shot during an argument at a party in Palm Coast, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office will take over the case of the fatal shooting of a teenager in Bunnell.
A multi-agency investigation that began January 2021 resulted in the arrest of a man Tuesday who’s accused of committing violent sex offenses to two underage victims, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Special Investigations Unit within the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man Thursday and “closed” a house that he was accused of selling drugs from, according to a news release.
Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said that a phoned-in tip led to the arrest of three “career felons” Tuesday in Palm Coast, according to a news release.
A man who Flagler deputies pulled over early Wednesday morning was arrested after he was found to have an active warrant for drug trafficking, according to his charging affidavit.
Social unrest, negative headlines, COVID-19: those are just some of the things local sheriffs and chiefs listed when News 6 asked them about recruitment troubles.
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Flagler County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Rymfire Elementary School student who filed two false reports of an active school shooter.
