- December 4, 2025
Jan. 9
Drug tester catches suspect cold
1:45 p.m. — 300 Block of West Granada Boulevard. Battery. The victim said the suspect entered the business to complete a drug test for employment. When the victim collected the urine sample, she noticed it was cold, as if the suspect had poured urine into the container that would test clean.
The victim informed the suspect that he failed the drug test and he became very upset and argumentative. The suspect snatched the employer’s paperwork from the victim’s hand and ran out the door. The victim assumed that the suspect took the paperwork so she could not notify his employer that he failed the test.
After a few minutes, the suspect entered the lobby again. He walked to the rear of the business and demanded that the victim return his driver’s license. She told him he could have the license if he gave her the paperwork.
The victim put the driver’s license on the copy machine. The suspect knocked her out of the way, grabbed the license and ran out the door before she could make a copy. She said she would press charges for battery.
The victim remembered the name and birth year of the suspect, and the officer was able to obtain his information. He tried to call him six times, unsuccessfully. A photo lineup was created, and the victim and another witness identified the suspect. Also, the suspect had signed the sign-in sheet when he first entered.
Charges were filed against the suspect.
Jan. 9
Chase results in ample evidence
8:56 p.m. — 300 Block of Pine Street. Fleeing Vehicle. While on patrol the officer saw a black Lexus westbound on Division Avenue with dark window tint preventing him from seeing in the passenger compartment.
The officer caught up with the Lexus after a couple of turns, and activated his emergency lights. The Lexus sped up. The officer then activated the siren and the Lexus sped up again. The officer then stopped the chase.
He radioed the last known direction of travel and advised surrounding units that he had felony fleeing and alluding on the vehicle.
Later, a sheriff’s deputy saw the Lexus speeding but did not attempt to stop it.
Central dispatch then received report of a crash. The caller said a single occupant bailed from the vehicle and was last seen running through back yards.
Officers found the Lexus that had been speeding crashed into a telephone pole. The pole was broken and laying on the car.
A perimeter was set up, and a sheriff’s deputy stopped a man who was bleeding from a fresh cut on his hand. The man got blood on the hood of the officer’s car.
In a post-Miranda interview, the suspect said he just left his aunt’s house and was on his way home to Daytona Beach. He motioned toward a nearby house as his aunt’s residence. He said he cut his hand running from a dog and had no connection with the Lexus.
During the interview, a deputy and his K-9 partner tracked the suspect from the Lexus to the place where he was being detained.
The resident at the house indicated by the suspect said she never heard of him. She said she had heard someone talking on the porch but never opened it. The officer noticed fresh drops of blood on the porch.
The Lexus contained cannabis, a digital scale, currency and two cell phones, consistent with drug sales.
A white jacket with blood splatter was also found in the vehicle. These items and blood swabs from the police car and the porch were placed into evidence along with a photo of the suspect.
The suspect was not arrested because he could not be immediately tied to the Lexus. Charges are pending, awaiting results of analysis of the evidence by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
