- December 26, 2024
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5:44 p.m. — 300 block of South Atlantic Avenue, Ormond Beach
Unarmed burglary. A 37-year-old Daytona Beach man suspected of breaking into an Ormond Beach home told police that not only was he friends with the homeowner, but he had been organizing the homeowner’s property and putting items in a black trash bag for disposal.
Police had responded to the home after the victim notified them that he had found the man on his back porch with items strewn around — items he usually keeps inside his house, according to a police report.
The suspect began walking along the beach, where police approached him. When asked to provide his personal information, the man told the reporting officer a false birth date, claiming he had forgotten it.
He also told police that he was friends with the homeowner, whom he said invited him over to “organize and paint,” according to the report.
The victim, who wanted to pursue charges, determined that the man likely entered the home through the basement. Police found that the suspect was carrying methamphetamine. He was taken to jail.
11:27 a.m. — Intersection of Jefferson Street and South Yonge Street, Ormond Beach
DUI. Intersection of Jefferson Street and South Yonge Street, Ormond Beach
DUI. Two sips of wine and some cake — that’s all a 59-year-old man from Virginia told local police he’d had to eat and drink when the officer stopped the man’s car because the man wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
But the reporting officer noted that the driver’s speech was slurred and that he was moving slowly as he produced his documentation, according to a police report. That’s when the officer spotted an open bottle of wine in the car’s center console.
The man agreed to perform a series of field sobriety exercises, which he failed. He told police he had been driving to South Daytona, but he didn’t know what street he was on nor which direction he was heading, the report states. He claimed he’d eaten some cakes from a gas station convenience store around midnight, and that he had “started drinking at 11 a.m. and stopped drinking at 11 a.m.”
The man told police that he couldn’t feel the effects of the wine, and admitted to taking cocaine earlier that morning. He was taken to jail.
