- September 18, 2024
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6:59 p.m. — 700 block of John Anderson Drive, Ormond Beach
Loitering or prowling. Police arrested a 30-year-old Daytona Beach man who tried to take a wheelbarrow from someone's house to "help people clean up hurricane debris."
Officers were notified of a suspicious person in the neighborhood, which was seen going into a home's garage. When police arrived and detained him, the man said he was going to use the wheelbarrow to pick up sticks and other debris, according to the police report.
While speaking with the man, one of the homeowners in the area arrived and told police that the man had left a bike in their garage. The man said he had taken the bike, and put it there to use the wheelbarrow.
No homeowner wished to pursue charges, but the man was arrested for unlawfully loitering or prowling as his story didn't dispel "the fear of possible criminal activity that could have happened or may have happened."
5:55 a.m. — 1200 block of Scottsdale Drive, Ormond Beach
Criminal mischief. A 39-year-old Ormond Beach man turned himself into police after his neighbor filed charges for breaking his security camera.
The victim told police that he has been having issues with his neighbor, who is often drunk, for some time, and the reporting officer noted he had responded to the residence several times. Over the course of the evening, between Sept. 10 and early morning Sept. 11, the victim received text messages from the man containing profane phrases, as well as one 13-message text message of individual letters, according to a police report.
Before the victim called police, he noticed that one of his new security cameras was missing, with wires left exposed. Security footage from 11:14 p.m. on Sept. 10, showed the man climbing up on the fence below the camera, and hurling profanities at it before smashing it with an unknown object.
Officers were unable to find the camera.
