- January 7, 2026
1:06 p.m. — 1400 block of West Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach
Found child. Police were dispatched to a local fast food restaurant after employees took note of an unaccompanied 5-year-old boy.
According to the incident report, the boy told police he had been traveling to Florida with his family, who are from South Carolina, but was unable to provide a phone number to contact his parents.
Restaurant staff reviewed the surveillance footage, which showed the boy entering the restaurant with his family at about 12:04 p.m. The family left the restaurant at 12:40 p.m. but the boy was left behind in the children's play area.
The mother later called the restaurant in a panic trying to locate her son. Police coordinated the boy's pickup at the station, and the parents arrived at 3:19 p.m. to pick him up. The mother told police that her other children didn't notice that the boy was missing due to being distracted while using their electronic devices. The parents each thought the boy had been placed in the car by the other, leading to accidentally leaving him behind.
7:24 p.m. — 300 block of Park Place West, Ormond Beach
Battery touch or strike. A 77-year-old Ormond Beach woman was accused of hitting a fellow board member of her homeowner's association after a verbal argument over the victim's children riding scooters in the grass.
Police report that the victim called police four days after the incident took place on Dec. 31. The victim said that the woman hit the right side of her head with her forearm during their argument. She told police that others had informed her that the woman had previously been involved in physical altercations with renters in the neighborhood.
Police spoke with the woman, who admitted the argument did occur, but denied hitting the victim. However, she told a different story. The woman said she threw envelopes at the victim before walking away, and alleged that the victim "charged her, grabbed her hair and struck her multiple times," according to the police report. The woman said that at that time, she grabbed the victim's hair to defend herself. The altercation ended, she said, when a neighbor intervened and separated them.
Neither party wished to press charges.
