The civil war of Palm Beach’s first post-pandemic season began not with a bang, but a flyer. In January, an angry Palm Beacher left it on cars with New York license plates. “If you are one of those ‘woke people’—leave Florida,” the flyer exclaimed. “You will be happier elsewhere, as will we.”
With more than 140 cameras on the island and state-operated drone surveillance, the Palm Beach Police Department quickly identified the flyer “perp,” whom town police chief Nicholas Caristo described as “a person from the area who was not known to us prior to this.” Though the flyers were annoying, they were not a criminal matter, he said in an interview, declining to name the culprit. The matter was quickly settled, he added, “in a Palm Beach way.” Translation: one of the island resort community’s 67 sworn officers visited the offender at home and told him, politely but firmly, to “cease and desist.” Case closed.
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