- November 23, 2024
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All he wanted was some shut-eye; and, if at first you don't suc-steal, try, try again.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Jan. 26
Beer-bottle alarm clock
6:49 a.m. — First Block of Brookwood Drive. Simple or aggravated assault. An Ormond Beach man reported being hit with a beer bottle. While the police were on their way, dispatch advised them the victim seemed intoxicated and wasn’t “really sure of the occurrence location,” the report said.
The police located the man at an intersection and reported that he “looked like he had just woke up and had slept in the clothes he was wearing.” The police said the man didn’t appear intoxicated, but did smell like alcohol.
The man told police he was at a friend’s house the night before, and when he was trying to go to sleep, a woman he knew wouldn’t stop talking. The man told police he told her several times to shut up, got in her face and even punched the couch next to her to get her to stop talking, which is when, he said, the woman got up with a bottle and hit him in the side of the head.
The man told police it could have happened around 6 a.m., but he wasn’t exactly sure. The man also refused medical attention, although he had a small scratch on the back of his head, and he suggested the police take the woman into custody.
Police told the man that hitting the couch was considered assault, at which point police said he became uncooperative. The man said he simply wanted to get his items from his friend’s house and leave. The man’s friend told police he kicked the woman out of his house after the man left to walk down the street.
Jan. 27
Third door’s the charm
2:03 p.m. — 1500 Block of Granada Boulevard. Shoplifting. A loss-prevention officer witnessed the suspect stuff four sets of window treatments underneath his shirt, and then confronted him with another witness while he was exiting the store’s garden section.
The loss-prevention officer told the suspect to stop, but he dropped the items and began to walk towards the fire exit near the pharmacy. That door wouldn't open, so the suspect walked out the general merchandise exit and got into a vehicle that sped away, witnesses told police.
The witnesses were able to provide police with the vehicle’s license plate number and a description of the suspect.
