- May 23, 2025
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1:50 p.m. — 1500 block of North Beach Street, Ormond Beach
Possession of drugs. While conducting speed enforcement, officers took note of a man driving an SUV over 20 mph above the posted speed limit. After they pulled over the driver, a 25-year-old Ormond Beach man, and he rolled down his window, the reporting officer was greeted by an "overwhelming odor' of burnt marijuana.
According to the man's arrest report, the officer asked the man how much weed was in the car. The man replied, "like 3 grams." He was asked to step out of the vehicle as officers searched inside, finding a half-smoked blunt in the driver's side floorboard, a glass smoking pipe in the center console and a plastic container in the driver's visor organizer. Inside the container were trace amounts of methamphetamine.
The man told police that the he had been smoking marijuana when the officer pulled him over, and that he attempted to stomp it out when he saw them. When asked about the plastic container, the man said it had fishing baits inside it, but that "it wasn't supposed to be in his car anymore," the report states. He admitted to using meth in the past, but said he no longer does, and that he has an open court case for a drug possession charge.
He was taken to jail.
5:29 p.m. — 700 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
Written threats to kill or do bodily injury. Police arrested a 25-year-old Ormond Beach man who made threats on X, a social media platform, threatening to kill President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.
The man, who was wanted for questioning regarding the threats, was walking along the 100 block of North Nova Road when he was stopped by police in a local retail pharmacy parking lot. After he was detained, the man requested a lawyer and initially declined to answer questions.
However, upon police asking him if he wanted to know why he was being detained, the man agreed to speak with officers and was shown his social media posts. The man said he suffers from memory loss and didn't remember posting the messages, which included threats warning Trump he would get assassinated for "betraying Americans" and using derogatory language against Jewish people.
Police report the man then said his accounts were hacked and that he was locked out, and that he felt he was being targeted because he never "directly stated he was going to kill anyone."
The reporting officer noted the man is known to express "extreme anti-semitic and anti-government ideology." He was taken to jail.
