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Internet Research<br />

Armando Martinez<br />

(Note: Articles Appear in Reverse Chronological Order)<br />

Tab 8<br />

Weeks earlier, Ralph Silcox Jr. was fired after he admitted to stealing a car battery from the city<br />

maintenance yard. A witness said he saw Silcox unload a vehicle battery from the back of a city<br />

truck and put it into his car. Two other staffers corroborated the witness' account, documents<br />

said.<br />

Less than a week before that, Alexander Dearriba - a water works supervisor for the city -<br />

resigned amid allegations of misconduct and filing a false police report.<br />

According to investigation documents, Dearriba reported a rental car stolen to Flagler <strong>Beach</strong><br />

Police on Feb. 26, but officers soon learned the rental car hadn't been stolen at all. Police found a<br />

man driving the car in Bunnell and stopped him. The man said Dearriba had acted as a<br />

middleman in renting the car for him and he showed officers text messages he had exchanged<br />

with Dearriba to prove it.<br />

Dearriba later admitted to filing the false report. He said he became nervous and reported the car<br />

stolen after the man he'd rented the car for didn't immediately return it at the agreed upon time,<br />

the report states.<br />

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