POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Lakeland man is facing criminal charges this week after a Sunday evening tear through a local neighborhood left a trail of broken property and a very blurry memory.
Polk County Sheriff’s deputies caught up with 27-year-old Cody Laine McAuliffe around 6:30 p.m. on April 26, following reports of a one-man wrecking crew operating near the intersection of Saddlewood Boulevard and Rockridge Road.
The chaos began north of Lakeland when a witness reported seeing McAuliffe snap a wooden mailbox post clean in half…