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Some families produce a quiet, respectable paper trail. The Coddingtons appear to be working on a louder one.
On Saturday, June 6, shortly before noon, a vehicle met a tree near the 500 block of East Hillsboro Boulevard — the kind of single-car-versus-flora encounter that usually ends with a tow truck and an insurance call. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, this one escalated. Investigators say the driver carjacked a passerby, fled, abandoned the stolen vehicle at a fast-food restaurant, and was eventually located at a gas station, where — per BSO — he declined the deputies’ polite suggestion that he surrender and became combative. He was taken to a hospital, then to jail. His booking photo suggests the encounter was not one-sided.
The man arrested is Cory Joseph Coddington, 46. The charges, drawn straight from the BSO inmate record: carjacking without a firearm (812.133-2b, a first-degree felony, $50,000 bond), aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer with violence, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer or first responder, petit theft, leaving the scene of a crash, and possession of more than 10 grams of MDMA. That last one is a possession charge — bond set at $1,500, the discount rack of this particular menu. Worth noting only because possession is what the record says, no more.
BSO’s release counted nine charges. The Clerk’s docket lists six. Both are right in their own way, which is its own small comment on how these things get tallied.
This is not, it turns out, a debut. Palm Beach County had a turn last fall: a robbery-by-sudden-snatching arrest in November, which the State Attorney declined to file as a felony in December — a “No File,” the legal equivalent of a shrug. There’s also a domestic-violence injunction on the books, and a March arrest for allegedly violating it, the details of which involve a cruise ship and adjacent staterooms and are best left to the affidavit.
The case sits before Judge Frank Ledee. It is, as they say, active.
None of this is a conviction. An arrest is an allegation, the docket is a snapshot, and the man is entitled to every presumption the rest of us would want. But the public record is the public record, and Florida’s sunshine laws make it everyone’s to read. This is simply what it says.
