- March 10, 2025
7:50 p.m. — Intersection of Laurel Drive and East Victoria Circle, Ormond Beach
Weapons complaint. While conducting an unrelated investigation, a police officer noted that a man's bicycle lacked a rear taillamp, as required by law. Standing in the roadway, the officer yelled at the man to stop several times, but the bicyclist continued to pedal away
The officer noted the man was carrying a concealed object underneath his jacket, which was loosely wrapped around it, according to the incident report.
A second officer who witnessed the incident then got into his patrol car and followed the man, a 35-year-old transient, and initiated a traffic stop. The man dropped the item on the ground and the officer saw a rifle's wood buttstock exposed from the jacket. The man said, "It's not mine. I was just trying to get it back to her," the report states.
The man told police he had kept pedaling away from the officer because he "panicked." He was previously convicted of crimes such as burglaries, grand thefts, narcotics and a previous charge for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
He was taken to jail. Police later determined the rifle had been stolen during a burglary in the first block of Laurel Oaks Circle.
3:38 a.m. — 200 block of South Atlantic Avenue, Ormond Beach
Theft. A 40-year-old man from Dallas, Texas, was arrested for a county ordinance violation after hotel staff reported he tried to steal chairs from their pool area.
According to a police report, the hotel security guard told officers that he saw the man park a white semi-truck, with no trailer attached, by the hotel pool. He then approached the pool, climbed over the fence, and tried to lift the plastic Adirondack chairs over the fence.
The security guard confronted him, and the man became verbally aggressive with him, the security guard said to police. The man left as the security guard dialed 911.
Police found the man's truck parked on the Rockefeller beach approach, where he was detained and arrested for having alcohol on the beach. Because of this, the hotel staff didn't pursue charges for the attempted theft.
