- April 24, 2024
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5:39 p.m. — 100 block of South Nova Road, Ormond Beach
Improper exhibition of a firearm/dangerous weapon. Police were called to a local ice cream shop after receiving a report about a man threatening people with a knife while at the shop's drive-thru window.
Per the police report, the 43-year-old Ormond Beach man still had the knife in his hand when officers arrived. He was placed at gunpoint, and told to drop the knife, which the man did at that time. Police spoke with witnesses, who said they saw the man approach the drive-thru window on his bike with a folding knife open in his hand. Ice cream shop staff were notified, and all doors were subsequently locked.
The man told police that he had come to get ice cream, though he didn't have any money. He had come to the shop to get samples to "wet [his] lips," according to the police report, and tapped on the window's glass with his knife because his hands were injured and he couldn't knock. He had been waiting 15 minutes at the window, the man said, and the knife was the only thing he had accessible to use as a knocker.
The police noted the man had multiple items in his pockets. When asked why he didn't go into the store after not being helped, the man said that it hurt to walk. He said he wasn't attempting to rob the sop.
Due to the man having various open wounds and possible infections, police took him to the hospital before he was taken to jail.
5:31 p.m. — 400 block of Lakebridge Plaza Drive, Ormond Beach
Suspicious incident. An officer was dispatched to an apartment complex after a resident reported that she believed one of her recently-evicted neighbors had poured a white substance on her car due to a verbal altercation that occurred two weeks prior.
The officer looked at her car and saw no damage. However, there was bird feces on its rear windshield and roof, he noted in his report. The officer additionally reported that the car was parked under a tree with a bird's nest, and that there was bird feces around where the car was parked too.
The woman still believed her neighbor was at fault, according to the incident report, and insisted the incident be documented.
5:03 p.m. — Intersection of Melrose Avenue and North Yonge Street, Ormond Beach
DUI. A 27-year-old Palm Coast woman was arrested after she crashed her vehicle into another while driving under the influence. A crash investigation determined that the woman had run a stop sign.
An officer that responded to the scene noted that the woman was "confused" and unaware of the direction she had been driving, Police began a criminal investigation for driving under the influence and the woman agreed to perform the field sobriety exercises. She appeared "disheveled and carefree," according to her arrest report, and spoke with a "thick tongue" and slow speech pattern.
When asked if she'd had any alcohol, she said she had one sot of tequila earlier that afternoon. She failed the field sobriety exercises, and when placed under police custody, began to be rude to the officers. According to her arrest report, she taunted one officer by asking if it was his first day on the job, demanded officers called her mother, and made statements about the officers all being white. The woman is also white.
She was taken to jail.
