- January 22, 2026
Volusia Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 30-year-old Ormond Beach man on Thursday, Jan. 22, after he barricaded himself inside his home following reports he caused an armed disturbance in his neighborhood.
VSO deputies responded to the Pinewood Estates manufactured home community on Hand Avenue at 9:59 a.m. after receiving a call that a man, identified as Preston Meier, had been walking down the neighborhood road with a gun while yelling at another neighbor.
Once at the scene, Meier was seen in the doorway of his home, with no weapons, placing a traffic barricade in the doorway to his home, according to his arrest report. Deputies tried to de-escalate the situation, the report states, but were unsuccessful; the man exited and entered his home a few times during this, always unarmed.
On one of the times he exited, deputies reported he sat down on the front stairs to his home, where deputies tried to detain him. Meier resisted and a deputy deployed his taser, which Meier evaded by closing the door.
VSO reports a taser was deployed "due to the tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving situation, where at the time, deputies had information Meier had allegedly committed an aggravated assault with a firearm."
During this, deputies learned Meier's girlfriend was inside the home. They spoke to her on the phone and she said she was going to try to convince Meier to exit the home with her. However, deputies could hear Meier saying he wasn't going to let her leave and the call ended abruptly.
Deputies were later able to speak to Meier on the phone, and the report states Meier made multiple statements regarding his mental health.
After contacting his mother, Meier exited the home and was able to be detained. He was charged with false imprisonment and resisting an officer without violence.
He was taken to jail.
