- August 4, 2026
8:41 p.m. — 2000 block of North Beach Street, Ormond Beach
Threat to bomb. Police arrested a 48-year-old woman who reportedly called 911 and said she was going to burn down a local state park.
According to an arrest report, the woman had been recently added as a new park volunteer that week. A park employee told officers that the woman had been "behaving strangely" throughout the day and making accusations that somebody was trying to kidnap her. The employee also said he had received a call from campers around 8 p.m. that evening about a woman screaming at campers, and then another call about a woman making sexual advances and demonstrating threatening behavior at another group of campers.
Officers called the number associated with the original 911 call. After several attempts, the woman picked up and screamed profanities into the phone before hanging up.
Police discovered the woman was living in a camper at the park. They knocked on the door of the camper and the woman came out fully naked "in a hostile manner while yelling and raising her arms," according to the report. She smelled like alcoholic beverages.
She was detained and brought clothing at the scene. The woman told officers that she had been calling 911 all night in reference to suspicious people in the park that she claimed were trying to kidnap her. She explained that she threatened to burn down the park to make "law enforcement respond quicker."
During the investigation, police discovered the woman hadn't called 911 about the alleged kidnapping concerns; she had called park rangers.
She was taken to jail.
10:06 a.m. — 200 block of Rosewood Avenue, Ormond Beach
Criminal mischief. An Ormond Beach homeowner called police after she found egg shells and egg yolks on the walls of her house, as well as on her outside patio furniture and planters.
The woman told police she suspected her neighbor was behind the vandalism, believed to have occurred overnight, according to a police report. She explained that there is "tension" between them due to multiple incidents, including one time where her neighbor sped his lifted truck down the street while it was flooded, creating a wake that caused water to flood into her garage.
She didn't want to press charges, but wanted police to document the incident.
