- April 19, 2024
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1:36 a.m. — 600 block of South Atlantic Avenue
Loitering or prowling. Police arrested a 30-year-old man who was charging his phone at an outside electrical outlet belonging to a closed business.
The reporting officer noticed the man laying on the side of the building, concealed in the dark. The officer asked the man what he was doing, and according to the report, the man replied "very sarcastically, 'You can see I have my phone plugged in here.'" The officer told the man what he was doing could be considered theft.
The man became agitated, the report states, and started gathering his things. He declined to provide any identification or give his name to the officer and walked away. The officer asked the man again to stop and identify himself, and a second officer intercepted him. The man gave them a fake name.
He was arrested and taken to jail.
12:30 p.m. — 200 block of West Granada Boulevard
Battery touch/strike. A 60-year-old Daytona Beach man was arrested after he threw chicken wings at a fast food employee while in the establishment's drive-thru and issued threats to hurt him. According to the police report, the man got angrier when the employee shut the drive-thru window and refused to give the man a refund for the chicken wings he threw.
The employee told police that around noon, he received a phone call from a man asking if they had chicken wings, and inquire about the price. The man put in an order and when the man arrived in the drive-thru, he was given his order and payment was made as customary.
The report states the man returned to the drive-thru speaker box and started yelling. The employee asked him to pull up to the window so he could speak to the manager, which was when the man began hurling his meal at the employee. Afterward, the man tried to enter the dining room, but it was locked due to COVID-19.
About 15 minutes, later the man called again and threatened to shoot him and shoot all the black employees, the report states. The employee called police, and soon after the reporting officer arrived, the man called again and threatened to put "bullets in the heads." The man was eventually apprehended outside his home, and denied any involvement in the incident.
He was taken to jail.
3:56 p.m. — 300 block of West Granada Boulevard
Battery. Police arrested a 40-year-old man who spit on a woman during a verbal altercation inside a local grocery store.
According to his arrest report, a store employee called police after she saw the man swing a shopping cart at a woman and a toddler and spit in their direction. The woman told police that, while shopping for cupcakes with her daughter, the man began yelling at her using derogatory racial language, despite her being white. During the altercation, he spit on her, and it landed on her hand.
The man left the store and was apprehended in a nearby gas station. The victims were transported to the gas station and the woman positively identified the man.
The man told police that he had been sitting in the store and felt something hit the back of his head. He said he then got up and yelled out of anger, but didn't see anything that hit him in the head. He also denied spitting on anyone or throwing a shopping cart.
He was taken to jail.
