- April 26, 2024
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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Real Time Crime Center helped catch two people stealing Apple Watches from a Palm Coast T-Mobile store. John Harkless, 33, and Tavaris Kelly, 37, are currently behind bars at the Volusia County jail. The two Jacksonville residents stole four Apple Watches valued at nearly $2,000 from the T-Mobile store on Palm Coast Parkway.
FCSO Deputies responded to the store Friday night. An employee told deputies she watched the two, wearing construction uniforms, steal the watches then drive off in a U-Haul van. While at the T-Mobile store, deputies were made aware that a similar incident had just happened in Jacksonville at another T-Mobile store around the same time the night before.
Deputies utilized RTCC technology and were able to track the van traveling south on I-95 toward Volusia County and attempted to stop the vehicle, which fled south in to Volusia County. Daytona Beach Police later located the U-Haul van abandoned at an apartment complex.
FCSO deputies were notified later that night that Harkless and Kelly had been arrested by Daytona Beach Police for a separate shoplifting incident at a Daytona Beach Walmart. The two were attempting to return the four stolen Apple Watches. Deputies then went to Daytona Beach to continue the theft investigation, and both were arrested.
Harkless, no stranger to the law enforcement, has two active warrants from Duval County for Armed Robbery with a Firearm or Deadly Weapon and Robbery with a total $1 million bond. Kelly’s arrest history in Jacksonville is many pages long, with 23 felony arrests.
