- April 25, 2024
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1:01 a.m. — 600 block of South Atlantic Avenue
Trespassing. A 54-year-old man from Tennessee was arrested after he obtained keys to a hotel room he had not paid for, claiming that the room was sold to him for $105 by a hotel employee.
According to the police report, the man informed officers upon their arrival that there had been a "misunderstanding." He said that a third-party hotel booking website instructed him and his girlfriend to come to the hotel to find a room. He said a maintenance worker gave him an envelope with two room keys and a parking pass. However, there were no documents to show the man had a reservation.
The only message either had from the booking website was a text from a representative saying their call been dropped, and that if they wanted to stop receiving their texts, to reply with "Stop." The man did.
After an investigation, police determined the man grabbed the envelope from a box near the front desk, and that his girlfriend was not aware of his actions. At the time of the couple's arrival to the hotel, all maintenance workers had long since left.
The man was taken to jail.
8:01 a.m. — 500 block of South Atlantic Avenue
Suspicious incident. A car repair shop employee called police after he discovered a golf cart in the shop's parking lot with a posted sign that read, "Free."
The keys were left inside the golf cart and the employee was concerned someone would actually take the cart, so he placed it closer to the business and reported it. Police could not determine if the golf cart was stolen, as there were no notices of missing golf carts in the area. The employee was instructed to have the cart towed.
6:50 p.m. — 100 block of Sunset Point Drive
Reporting a false crime. Police arrested a 33-year-old Ormond Beach man who reported his vehicle as stolen after it was involved in a nearby hit and run crash.
Police discovered the man's white sedan crashed into a ditch and once they identified its owner, they knocked on their front door. The man initially claimed that as far as he knew, his car was still parked in the driveway, and not in a ditch. The reporting officer noted that the man's front door bell camera did not capture the vehicle getting stolen. He then advised the man that filing a false police report was a crime, and the man said he was "well aware."
He still reported it as stolen, though, as well as signed a sworn written statement. What the man didn't know is that an officer had seen him and his wife leaving the scene of the crash in another vehicle. He claimed that couldn't be true.
The second officer, the one who spotted them leaving the scene, spoke with his wife, who confirmed that her husband's claim of their vehicle having been stolen was false.
He was taken to jail.
