Palm Coast, FL - Flagler deputies receive a call about an armed man sleeping in a parking lot and end up arresting a Georgia man who was already wanted on a warrant.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office (FCSO) arrived at the parking lot of an ABC liquor store on Palm Coast Parkway on Tuesday (May 18) and found a vehicle backed into a parking spot with the rear concealed by palmetto fronds.
When deputies approached the vehicle, they found 39-year-old Jason O'Kelly asleep in the driver's seat with a firearm, a pistol-grip shotgun, wedged between the passenger seat and the center console, along with a glass smoking pipe. Deputies further noted that O'Kelly had a 130-pound Rottweiler named Marco sitting on the rear passenger seat.
According to a report from FCSO, deputies woke O'Kelly up and told him to put his hands on his steering wheel. After waking O'Kelly, deputies searched his car and found a backpack containing an assortment of narcotics, including: 73 grams of marijuana; 12 containers of concentrated THC wax weighing over a pound-and-a-half; 7 packs of edible THC gummies; 8 THC tablets; and 11 concentrated THC oils.
Deputies continued to discover drugs in other parts of the car too. In the passenger door, deputies found a jar of dehydrated mushrooms and several glass smoking apparatuses. In the driver's door, deputies found several bags of methamphetamine.
Law enforcement also seized $2,432 in cash.
Further investigation found that O'Kelly was a fugitive from Coweta County, Georgia—which is almost 40 miles southwest of Atlanta—where he was wanted for failure to appear for sale and possession of Marijuana.
Deputies also noted this is not O'Kelly's first run-in with area law enforcement. According to FCSO, O'Kelly was arrested by the Daytona Beach Police Department in 2014 for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
O'Kelly was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and multiple drug and paraphernalia possession charges. He remains in custody at the Flagler County Jail with no bond. His dog, Marco, was picked up by Palm Coast Animal Control.
