- January 3, 2025
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9:31 p.m. — 700 block of Alcazar Avenue, Ormond Beach
Noise. Police arrived to a neighborhood after receiving a noise complaint, and the reporting officer noted that, even at a distance of 150-175 feet, he could hear the sound of dance and club music coming from a home's open window. He could also see rotating shining lights.
According to the report, it took the officer several moments to get the resident's attention. The resident, a 53-year-old Ormond Beach man, told him that he turns the music off at 10 p.m. and that he uses it to make social media videos and livestreams. He argued that there were other loud sounds in the area, including motorcycle noises.
However, the officer informed him that the noise levels violated a city ordinance. The neighbor who complained to police said she would pursue a code enforcement violation.
8:11 a.m. — 700 block of South Fleming Avenue, Ormond Beach
Suspicious incident. An Ormond Beach resident called police after he found a small can of Coca-Cola in his mailbox. The soda was accompanied by a note written on a paper towel stating, "Sorry for your troubles."
The citizen told police that he believed his neighbor was to blame, and that he had received other items in his mailbox throughout the weekend — a headless statues and a lamp, according to a police report.
The citizen believed that this was all caused by an argument over a garage sale.
Police spoke with the neighbor, who "adamantly denied" putting anything in the citizen's mailbox, according to the report.
10:39 a.m. — Ormond Beach
Burglary. A 24-year-old Ormond Beach man was arrested after he broke into a car, poured tomato juice all over himself and entered a resident's backyard.
According to the man's arrest report, the resident heard the man trying to enter through his back door. The resident, with a gun in his hand, exited through a different door to reach his backyard, where he questioned the man why he was in his backyard. The man asked him not to shoot and said "he had acid in his eyes" before running off.
The resident then went to his car, which was parked in his driveway, and discovered the man had taken tomato juice and laundry detergent out of the back of the car and poured it all over himself. The man had left the empty tomato juice bottles in the driveway, and a nearly empty detergent bottle in his backyard, according to the police report.
The man's shirt was recovered with one of the bottles of tomato juice; his sandals were in the resident's garage. The car also had tomato juice on the driver's side and "there was a thick trail of detergent in the backyard leading into the garage," the report states.
The man also tried to take the resident's broken canoe into the channel connected to the home. Police found him soaked in water and covered in tomato juice and detergent.
He was taken to jail.
9:35 a.m. — 300 block of Tomoka Avenue, Ormond Beach
Vandalism. Police suspect a disgruntled 67-year-old Ormond Beach man dropped a palm tree in his neighbor's U-shaped driveway after his neighbor refused to let him use the driveway to turn around on their dead-end street the day before.
According to a police report, officers had responded to the home on Aug. 24, when the neighbor called police to ensure his argument with the man didn't escalate. Police report the man had driven to the end of the street and wanted to use the neighbor's driveway to turn around, but was unable to as his neighbor was using it to take photos of his car.
The following day, police received another call from the neighbor when he found the large palm tree laying across his driveway. A large tarp was also left on his vehicle, with dirt inside, and a tree stump leaning up against it. The officer could see where the palm tree had been uprooted and followed the tire tracks to the man's property, which had a fork lift parked in plain view. The fork lift's tires, according to police, were a match for the tracks.
The man was having a conversation with someone over the phone when police were there investigating, and officers determined the other person on the line to be his mother. One overheard her say, on speaker, "I heard you were drunk yesterday and did something down the street," the police report notes.
Police had the fork lift towed.
12:04 p.m. — 300 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
Vandalism. Police responded to a local storage unit owned by a 52-year-old Daytona Beach man who reported damage to his rare two-headed skeleton taxidermied calf.
According to the incident report, the man arrived to his unit to find that a purple 8-pound medicine ball had been thrown over his unit fence, damaging the taxidermied calf and an oil painting. He wished police to document the incident to help with his insurance claim.
