- November 23, 2024
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A man behind a curtain ... stays behind the curtain; and, some gas station bathroom drug users just have the worst luck.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
May 14
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
7:43 p.m. — First Block of Live Oak Avenue. Open door. An Ormond Beach woman flagged down a police officer about an open door at a home, which she believed was foreclosed on and vacant.
Checking it out, officers “observed multiple newspapers on the floor, a large garbage and trash and several lights on inside,” according to reports.
The officers entered the enclosed front porch and knocked on a sliding glass door, which had a sheet hanging over it. That's when a man stood behind the sheet and said he lived there, but he refused to identify himself or come out from behind the sheet.
The man gave a phone number for his mother, who he told police owned the home.
Police were unable to contact the woman, but a neighbor said the man is rarely ever seen, and that his mother sends him money for living expenses.
Don't 'drug' my name through the mud
8:54 p.m. — 700 Block of Granada Boulevard. Trespassers. The store’s assistant manager called police because he thought a man was using drugs in the bathroom.
The manager told police she had found syringes and burnt spoons in the bathroom after the man had used it in the past. When the officer entered the bathroom, the man was in a locked stall, but the officer couldn’t see through the cracks in the door if there were any drugs in there with him.
The officer then identified himself and asked the man to exit the stall, which he did. During questioning, the officer noticed several pieces of drug paraphernalia in the stall's trash can, but the man denied they were his.
The officer reported that he had no probable cause to make an arrest, so the man was trespassed from the store and told if he returned he would be arrested. The drug paraphernalia was entered into evidence to be destroyed.
