- December 4, 2025
Open and shut
11:14 p.m. – 800 block of Pine Drive, Ormond Beach
Possession of an open container. An Ormond Beach man was arrested after a Sheriff's Office deputy found him asleep in the passenger seat of his truck with an open bottle of alcohol.
The deputy was on patrol when he saw a white truck parked and partially blocking the street, according to an arrest report. In the truck, a man was sitting, unconscious, in the passenger seat with the passenger door wide open and an open bottle of alcohol on the ground outside.
When the deputy woke the man, the man said, "I should probably grab this," picked up the bottle and put the lid back on it.
The man told the deputy he was sleeping there because his truck was having mechanical problems. The deputy placed the man under arrested for possession of an open container and had the truck towed.
Sharing is not always caring
6:28 a.m. – 1600 block of North Highway U.S. 1, Ormond Beach
Cocaine possession. An Ormond Beach woman was caught buying cocaine immediately after she leaving a hotel room.
A police officer and two Sheriff's Office deputies were walking around on a foot patrol around the hotel lot when he saw the woman left a hotel room and walk up to a man standing in the parking lot. The two then walked over to the neighboring hotel, with the officer and deputies following, according to an arrest report.
The officers stopped the two after watching the man hand the woman something. When she was asked to open her hands, the woman tried to hide a cigarette lighter and 0.1 grams of drugs behind her cell phone.
The woman admitted to purchasing cocaine and splitting it with the man in the parking lot. The man had ditched his half of the cocaine when the officers approached them and denied ever receiving anything from the woman or possessing any narcotics.
Because the officers could not locate the drugs the man had ditched, he was released and the woman was arrested and taken to jail.
