- April 24, 2024
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6:51 p.m. — 200 block of North Nova Road, Ormond Beach
Larceny. Police responded to a local pizza shop after the owner reported the theft of two bottles of soda.
According to an incident report, the owner said that a juvenile boy wearing a black hoodie and black face mask walked into the shop and over to the coolers, where he grabbed two bottles of soda. When asked whether he was going to pay for them or not, the boy said, "I'm just going to take them," and left the store.
Once outside, he ran northbound towards a community park. Employees tried to follow him, but the park was crowded and they lost sight of him.
However, the boy did drop the soda bottles during the chase, and an employee was able to retrieve them. Initially, the owner wished to press charges, but then changed his mind and decided to just have the incident documented.
10:10 a.m. — First block of South Beach Street, Ormond Beach
Fleeing/attempting to elude law enforcement. An officer was walking to his motorcycle when he heard the sounds of a car crash nearby. He then saw an SUV appearing to be "executing donuts in the roadway" before turning toward city hall, according to the police report.
Once in the city hall parking lot, the SUV came around the corner on the two driver side tires while its driver, a 52-year-old man from Daytona Beach, hung out of the open car door. The officer shouted for him to stop, to which the man, while still hanging out of the door, said "OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOO," as written verbatim in the police report. He continued to speed off, striking a parked car's driver side mirror, and then jumping over two curbs and sidewalks before crashing into a tree line.
The officer arrived to where the man had crashed to find the vehicle empty, but still running. Police began searching the scene and examining other vehicles in the parking lot for damage, when the reporting officer found the man lying face down. The man was placed under arrest.
The man said he had struck a stop sign when exiting the parking lot and had been attempting to get it "unstuck" by driving more erratically — hence, the donuts in the road. A syringe containing fentanyl was found inside his car.
