- April 26, 2024
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8:47 p.m. — First block of South Beach Street
Disorderly intoxication. Police arrested a 32-year-old man who initiated a physical fight in a city park over a mistaken backpack.
According to his arrest report, a group of residents were leaving the park when one of them, who is 60 years old, grabbed his backpack. However, the man thought the resident was stealing his backpack instead and started the fight by elbowing the resident and attempting to kick him in his groin. The resident defended himself and pinned the man to the ground until help arrived.
Police determined that the man was so intoxicated he believed the resident was stealing his backpack, without realizing his was still with his belongings in a nearby bench.
The man was issued a trespass warning for the park.
10:10 p.m. — 500 block of North Nova Road
DUI. A 31-year-old Ormond Beach woman claimed she had passed out in her car because she was exhausted, though officers quickly took note of the "fruity smell" on her breath that they determined was consistent with an alcoholic beverage.
The woman claimed she had only one drink that night — a smoothie with tequila — and that she had not finished it. She agreed to participate in a series of field sobriety exercises, all of which she failed. The woman was detained, and as she was searched, police found two shrimp tails in her jacket pocket. Inside her car, officers found her spiked smoothie.
In a subsequent interview, the woman said she didn't know what direction of travel she had been headed in, but later changed her story and said she was going south, instead of north on Nova Road. She also stated the last thing she ate was "yogurt or chili," despite the shrimp tails in her jacket pocket.
She was taken to jail.
6:40 p.m. — 500 block of Collins Street
Trespassing. Two men were arrested after they were found inside a home's shed; one of them was eating food and the other was crouched down coloring in a book, according to their arrest reports.
One of the men claimed a friend told him the owner of the home had allowed them to stay in the shed "so long as he did not make the place messy." The property owner told police she had never met either of the men. She wished to press charges.
Both men were taken to jail.
