A repeat offender who was captured on camera committing a residential burglary of a Palm Coast home has been taken into custody by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
When the victim informed dispatchers that she had home security footage of an unidentified person breaking into her house, deputies were called to the scene of a domestic burglary on Colleen Court on July 24. The victim claimed that a box of watches was stolen by the suspect, who was later found to be Austin Brammer, 35, of Palm Coast.
According to the camera footage, Brammer pulled up to the house in a white Chevrolet SUV at 10:37 a.m., backed into a driveway across the street, and waited for the victim to depart. Brammer came into the victim’s driveway around 10:40 a.m. as she was leaving the house in her vehicle. Then he got out of his SUV, knocked on the front door, and when no one answered, he walked to the back of the house and opened an unlocked rear door to enter.
Brammer entered several rooms and removed the box of watches from the master bedroom, according to the home’s security footage. Then he walked out of the house, put the box in the SUV’s trunk, and drove away.
Detectives from the General Assignment Unit found the car with the help of analysts in FCSO’s Real Time Crime Center, who also named Brammer as the suspect. In addition, he was a wanted criminal with a felony probation violation from a previous arrest.
Investigators discovered that in the hours after the break-in, Brammer had pawned eight stolen watches at a Palm Coast pawn shop.
Brammer was found by deputies at his Palm Coast home on Kings Colony Court North. To help deputies set up a perimeter around the house, members of the FCSO K-9 Unit, Problem Area Crime Enforcement Unit, and Fugitive Apprehension Unit arrived. Deputies tried calling Brammer multiple times and used a public address system to order him to leave through the front door, but he refused to answer or turn himself in.
The FCSO Communications Center informed deputies that Brammer was phoning 911 following a roughly twenty-five-minute standoff. After speaking with Brammer for a few minutes, the on-scene investigator convinced him to leave the house and turn himself in.
Brammer was arrested by detectives on the active warrant for grand theft, dealing in stolen items, burglary of an unoccupied residence, and fraudulent verification of ownership. He is being held without bond at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility after being taken there.
Since this isn’t his first burglary, Sheriff Rick Staly stated, “I hope he uses his time in jail to consider changing his ways and finding a new career because being a criminal isn’t working out for him.”
With a lengthy criminal history that includes ten previous arrests—eight of which occurred in Flagler County—and charges of aggravated battery, burglary, forgery, grand theft, larceny, possession of a controlled substance, violently resisting arrest, and probation violation, Brammer is well-known to law enforcement.
