Ormond man arrested after destroying neighbour's security camera | Local news from the Observer

2 September

One-man cleaning crew

6:59 p.m. – 700 block of John Anderson Drive, Ormond Beach

Loitering or prowling. Police arrested a 30-year-old Daytona Beach man who attempted to steal a wheelbarrow from another person's home to “help people clear away hurricane debris.”

Officers were notified of a suspicious person in the neighborhood who was observed going into the garage of a home. When police arrived and arrested him, the man said he was using the wheelbarrow to pick up tree limbs and other debris, according to the police report.

While I was talking to the man, one of the local homeowners came over and told police that the man had left a bicycle in his garage. The man said he took the bicycle and put it there to use the wheelbarrow.

None of the homeowners wanted to press charges, but the man was arrested for unlawful loitering or prowling because his story did not allay “fears of possible criminal activity that could or might have occurred.”

11 September

Caught on camera

5:55 a.m. – 1200 block of Scottsdale Drive, Ormond Beach

Criminal damage to property. A 39-year-old Ormond Beach man turned himself in to police after his neighbor reported him damaging his security camera.

The victim told police that he had been having problems with his neighbor, who was often drunk, for some time, and the reporting officer noted that he had been called to the residence several times. Over the course of the evening between Sept. 10 and the early morning hours of Sept. 11, the victim received text messages from the man containing obscene language, as well as a 13-message text message containing single letters, according to a police report.

Before calling police, the victim noticed that one of his new security cameras was missing and the wires were exposed. In the security camera footage from September 10 at 11:14 p.m., the man can be seen climbing the fence below the camera, shouting profanities at it, and then smashing it with an unknown object.

The officers were unable to find the camera.