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Ormond boy accused of vandalizing fire extinguishers by apartment complex

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May 7

Insufficient evidence

7:07 p.m. — 1500 block of San Marco Drive, Ormond Beach

Vandalism. Police responded to a local apartment complex after an employee reported that a tenant's 11-year-old son had been vandalizing fire extinguishers and pulling on fire escape signs.

The employee told the reporting officer that the apartment complex wished to pursue charges and said a neighbor had a video of the alleged incident as evidence, according to a police report. The officer then spoke with the neighbor, who said they had an ongoing problem with kids damaging property. 

The footage provided to police showed the boy walking toward the fire extinguisher box on the wall, touching it and looking inside, before he walked away. The neighbor said that after the video was taken, which was from March 4, he inspected the fire extinguisher and noticed its plastic lid was on the ground. However, the officer noted the boy was not seen removing it.

The officer spoke with the boy's mother, who said she did believe he had committed the crime. When speaking with the boy, he told the officer that he was "just looking at it" on the footage. 

The officer, according to the report, was unable to determine that the boy had been involved in foul play. 

May 8

Online threats

1:42 p.m. — First block of Choctaw Trail, Ormond Beach

Harassing call. A 31-year-old Ormond Beach woman called police to report she had been receiving threatening messages from another woman, who was also making Tiktok videos about her.

The Ormond woman said she and the suspect used to play "Call of Duty" and make streaming videos together, but that one day, the suspect randomly stopped and started to make videos to harass her, according to an incident report. The suspect sent messages to the woman, accusing her of making fake profiles and getting her Tiktok account removed. In one of the messages provided to police, the suspect threatened to kill her. 

The woman denied the suspect's allegations and said she didn't know why the suspect was accusing her of multiple things. 

Unsure of the woman's real name, police made attempts to identify her using two "heavily filtered" photos, but were unsuccessful. 

 

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