- June 21, 2025
4:14 p.m. — First block of Sherrington Drive, Ormond Beach
Larceny. Police responded to a local neighborhood after an 80-year-old resident reported someone had stolen two of his plants from his front yard.
The resident pointed to the scene of the crime: a flower bed with "two small voids where two plants had once been rooted," according to the incident report. The residents said the plants — a rose bush and a hibiscus bush — had been stolen a week apart from each other.
If a suspect is identified, the resident wished to press charges.
8:08 p.m. — 1600 block of North U.S. 1, Ormond Beach
Wellbeing check. A local motel front desk employee received a complaint about a foul smell in a room and called police to investigate, as multiple cats could also be seen from the window
Once there, officers reported that the foul odor could be smelled from the staircase down the hall from the room, according to an incident report. A maintenance employee opened the room's door, and 13 cats ran to the door. The room was covered in cat feces, old food and roaches, and the smell of ammonia was so potent, "the room needed to air out before units could continue a thorough search inside the room."
Among the cats, police also found two snakes, one dead and one alive in a separate cage.
Police attempted to contact the person who is registered to the room — a 51-year-old Palm Coast woman — but were unsuccessful. No one at the motel could recall the last time the woman was seen.
