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Go back in time with the best, funniest and wackiest Cops Corner entries of 2013, from January April, from the Ormond Beach Police Department.
COMPILED BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Jan. 9
Trash to treasure?
6:00 p.m. -- 1500 Block of Granada Boulevard. Petit theft. After being stopped by a loss-prevention officer, the defendant explained that she had found a receipt in the store’s parking lot and made a list of the items on it. Then, she entered the store with shopping bags and took the items on the list. She told the officer she intended to return the items for cash.
Among the 22 items the defendant attempted to return, totaling $160.68, were Busch beer, TGIF frozen onion rings, three Pokemon cards, two Playstation 2 games and two boxes of Kotex Tampons.
Feb. 8
From coffee to corpse pose
5:12 a.m. — 100 Block of Williamson Boulevard. Trespassers. A customer stood up and started yelling in a restaurant, according to witnesses, after he ordered coffee but the waitress didn't get it for him immediately.
According to the report, another customer saw what was happening and offered to pay for the defendant's meal, because he didn’t have enough money.
The police officer then issued the defendant a trespass warning, but the defendant responded by saying, “I’m not going anywhere,” according to the report. The defendant then purposely fell to the floor and became dead weight. The officer had to forcibly remove the man from the restaurant and transported him to the Volusia County Branch Jail.
March 6
It's 5 o'clock 'daycare'
5:15 p.m. — 200 Block of Hernandez Avenue. Suspicious vehicle. A man sat in a car, in front of a daycare, drinking Busch Light, while parents picked up kids at the end of the day.
After being approached by an Ormond Beach police officer, the man admitted that he comes to the location on a regular basis to make phone calls. He knew the daycare was there, he said, but “just likes to park there.”
According to the officer's report, the man had already finished one beer and “was working on his second,” and he couldn’t “provide any further explanation why he was drinking beer and watching the children.”
The man consented to a field-sobriety examination, performed well, and was given a citation for an open container.
April 17
Flash mob
6:37 p.m. — 300 Block of South Yonge Street. Narcotics. Several witnesses waved down an Ormond Beach police officer and informed him of a woman in the park yelling obscenities. She had also lifted her shirt several times in front of adults and children, they said.
The officer made contact with the woman, who said she was trying to get to South Daytona. While the officer was speaking with the woman, she “spontaneously” yelled obscenities and racial slurs.
The woman was trespassed from the area, and while she was collecting her belongings, which were hidden behind a dumpster, she was warned not to yell any more obscenities. But when two men rode by on bicycles, the woman yelled, “(Fudging) (bungholes)!” She was then arrested for disorderly conduct.
While searching the woman, the officer found “a small white plastic tube containing white powdery residue." The powder was tested “presumptive positive for cocaine.”
