- December 26, 2024
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4:32 p.m. — Intersection of North Halifax Drive and Neptune Avenue, Ormond Beach
Suspicious incident. A 46-year-old Ormond Beach resident was on his way to work when he failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. When he arrived at the job site location, a 45-year-old Ormond Beach man tapped on his driver side window and shouted, "You blew the stop sign," according to a police report.
The man proceeded to all him names and yell profanities, the resident later told police. The resident asked the man if he was a police officer, and the man replied that he was not. The resident then asked the man if he was going to call his work supervisor, to which the man replied with profanity prior to leaving the scene.
A few hours later, the man wrote a post on social media about the company for which the resident worked for, according to the police report. The resident said he considered it a personal attack because of the language and photos used on the public post. The man also left the company a bad Yelp review. The resident wished for the post and review to be taken down.
3:27 a.m. — 600 block of North Nova Road, Ormond Beach
Vandalism. A 31-year-old Ormond Beach resident heard yelling and an "aggressive knock" at his front door. He looked through his door's peephole, but couldn't see anyone on the other side of the door.
According to a police report, the resident then looked through his kitchen window, at which point he spotted a man. He decided to go back to his bedroom, and while in there, he heard a loud crash — his window had been broken. He stayed in his hallway as his guest, a 53-year-old New Smyrna Beach man, called 911.
Why was there a man at their door? The guest had called for an escort, according to the police report, and the man that broke the window had been her driver, who came up to their door after the escort had been paid.
No charges were pressed.
9:23 p.m. — 1500 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
Larceny. Police were dispatched to a local supermarket after a 68-year-old woman from Kentucky reported the $300 Visa gift card she had bought from the store earlier that day was fake.
The woman told the reporting officer that when she attempted to register the gift card online, she noticed that there was a discrepancy with the bar code number. The website asked for a 16 digit barcode, and her card only had 12 digits. She returned to the store where she spoke with an employee, who advised her she had been scammed and that the gift card she had bought had been tampered with.
Police compared the fake gift card to a real one and noted it was difficult to tell the difference. Two employees began looking through the gift cards in the store for other possible fakes, and found two that were possibly tampered with.
Police were unable to determine when the tampering of the gift cards took place, as the store couldn't provide surveillance footage and there were no suspects.
