- December 13, 2025
2:07 p.m. — 100 block of East Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
Found property. Police responded to a local grocery store after an employee found a lottery ticket in the parking lot.
The lottery ticket was worth $500 in winnings, according to the incident report. The store manager told police their policy was to turn over any lottery tickets worth over $100 in winnings to local police after cashing it in.
Police were provided with the lottery ticket and cash for safekeeping.
5:45 p.m. — First block of S. Halifax Drive, Ormond Beach
Grand theft. A local church reverend called police after two laptops were stolen from their choir room.
A church employee had left his Dell laptop atop his wife's in the room that morning, according to a police incident report. These laptops had been placed on top of a Macbook, which was not stolen. Surveillance footage revealed a man entered the room at around 11:26 a.m.
However, because the choir room doesn't have cameras, the surveillance footage simply captured the man entering and exiting the room. Church staff recognized him as a transient who previously stole from their food pantry, though they chose not to report it at the time. This time, the church did want to press charges for the stolen laptops.
The suspect, a 57-year-old man, was located the next day. He was wearing several of the same clothing items as the suspect seen in the surveillance footage, and told police he frequented the church every Friday to get food. The suspect claimed he was not the man pictured on the surveillance footage and allowed police to search his bag; there were no laptops inside.
A couple days later, one of the victims identified the suspect in a photo lineup. He was arrested at his workplace on probable cause and was taken to jail.
