- January 21, 2025
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11:33 a.m. — 1600 block of North U.S. 1, Ormond Beach
Possession of cocaine. Police responded to a local hotel after receiving a call about a stolen car. The caller, a 62-year-old Ormond Beach man, began to tell police once they entered his room that he believed his car had been stolen by a friend.
Then, the reporting officer looked down onto the hotel bed and saw a plastic bag containing a white powder.
The man was detained as police tested the substance, determined to be cocaine, according to a police report. He told officers that he didn't know how the drugs made it inside his room, as he only drinks and doesn't use drugs. He was "adamant," the report states, about proving this with a blood test.
While the man was arrested and taken to jail, police also completed a report for his stolen car.
7:24 p.m. — Intersection of Northbrook Drive and Domicilio Avenue, Ormond Beach
Escape. A 42-year-old Ormond Beach woman detained for driving under the influence managed to slip the handcuffs off her hands and hide them in her bra, claiming officers that she had never been handcuffed in the first place.
Police report the woman, who failed the field sobriety exercises, had been placed into a patrol vehicle wearing an officer's personally purchased handcuffs. But when another officer arrived on scene to transport her to the police department, officers discovered she was no longer cuffed, according to her arrest report. Police searched her person, finding them in her bra.
The officer who owned the handcuffs wished to press charges for the attempted theft, the report states. While en-route to the police department, the woman took off her seatbelt and once again, tried to take off her handcuffs.
She was taken to jail.
