- March 2, 2025
Zachary Sean Game, 23, was convicted guilty Nov. 8, after a two-day trial and a 20-minute jury deliberation.
BY MIKE CAVALIERE | ASSOCIATE EDITOR
It started with a package of Oreos, and it ended with an Ormond Beach man being convicted of first- and second-degree felonies, punishable by life in prison.
Zachary Sean Game, 23, visited a Deltona Publix with accomplice Robert Danzi, 22, last April, and the two placed a package of Oreos on the counter to be rang up. Amanda Case, the cashier, said she thought the two seemed a little “sketchy,” but she shrugged it off then opened the register drawer.
That’s when the men reached inside to steal the money from it, but Case tried to stop them, grabbing Danzi’s wrists and starting a struggle.
Christina Clark, a second employee, also stepped in, but Game pulled out a black semi-automatic handgun and jabbed it in her ear.
“Just chill,” Game told the two employees. “Calm down.”
After the incident, another shopper, Rachel McCray, also reported the men looked “out of place” in line. And once her transaction was complete, she said, she told Case to “be careful.”
Game and his counterpart grabbed the loot from Case’s register — later determined to be about $26 — and fled on foot — Danzi’s shoe fell off and he had to run back to get it before continuing his escape. The two then got inside an old, white Jeep Grand Cherokee and hightailed it east on State Road I-4. They were later apprehended at a Hess Station in Daytona Beach and prosecuted last week by Assistant State Attorney James Disinger, in a two-day trial.
The jury took 20 minutes to convict Game guilty as charged.
Video surveillance confirmed the victims’ and witnesses’ stories, and the identifications of the suspects were confirmed by all involved.
A reoffender, Game had been sentenced to prison on a prior home invasion robbery charge and committed this crime while on probation. He is facing a mandatory sentence as a Prison Releasee Reoffender, in addition to being convicted of violation of probation.
Disinger intends to seek the maximum sentence on both convictions.
