Daytona Beach Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Volusia officials working to lower traffic accidents...

  7 hrs ago | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Children approach the end of the sidewalk along West Blue Spring Avenue as school lets out at River Springs Middle School in Orange City on May 2. (N-J Children use a newly redesigned and located crosswalk at the Parent pick-up staging area as school lets out at River Springs Middle School in Orange City on May 2. (N-J ORANGE CITY -- With a few ... (more)

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• Police: Worker wanting time off calls in Holly Hill ...

  7 hrs ago | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  So what did she do? Police say she called the company where she works and said there was a bomb inside the building.

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• Cops: Suspects steal $60,000 from Tampa's elderly

  22 hrs ago | via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg 

  Detectives with the Tampa Police Department are asking for the public's help in identifying two suspects who they say scammed about $60,000 from four elderly women over the past two months.

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• One victim had her mentally handicapped son with her...

  Yesterday | via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg 

  TAMPA, Fla. - Detectives with the Tampa Police Department are asking for the public's help in identifying two suspects who they say scammed about $60,000 from four elderly women over the past two months.

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• Daytona's new Midtown center will help 'lots of kids'

  Yesterday | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  As hundreds of Daytona Beach kids spent a typical morning at school Tuesday learning about isosceles triangles and the difference between "there" and "they're," the doors swung open to a new place that will change some of their lives forever. 1 comment

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• Scam Artists Targeting Elderly in Central Tampa, Pol...

  Tuesday | via Patch.com 

  Tampa Police are asking for the public's help in finding up to four suspects who they say have scammed elderly victims around the area, including two in Central Tampa, out of about $60,000 in the past two months.

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• Tampa police: Scam artists targeting elderly

  Tuesday | via Tampa Bay Online 

  Tampa Police say this security-camera image from a Daytona Beach CVS may show two of four people involved in a series of frauds targeting elderly people.

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• Body of missing 19-year-old found on Daytona Beach

  Tuesday | via WFLX-TV West Palm Beach 

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• Mother of Seabreeze student files complaint after fight

  Monday | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  A cellphone video shows several teens gathered around two of their peers in a hallway at Seabreeze High; the students watch as one of the boys advances toward the other, punching his target at least four times in the face.

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• Ormond military vet on quest to save former hospital

  Monday | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  The U.S. Navy veteran has launched a petition drive asking for the abandoned hospital to be converted into a medical center for veterans.

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• New Volusia court program aims at reducing arrests o...

  Sunday May 27 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Dwayne Johnson was charged twice with trespassing for sleeping in public, and twice for having an open container, but that wasn't what landed him in Volusia County's jail.

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• Meth Lab probe detours Daytona beachgoers Saturday

  Saturday May 26 | via Examiner.com 

  An investigation into a possible meth lab on Atlantic Avenue in Daytona Beach has detoured beachgoers over the holiday weekend.

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• Police Evacuate Building, Close Road In Meth Lab Inv...

  Saturday May 26 | via WESH-TV 

  A portion of Atlantic Avenue was closed while police investigated a suspected meth lab in Daytona Beach on Saturday morning, police said.

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• Fourth resident announces for Daytona Beach mayor's ...

  Thursday May 24 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  The other mayoral hopefuls include Zone 1 City Commissioner Edith Shelley and former City Commissioners Gwen Azama-Edwards and Derrick Henry.

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• Three Arrested During Narcotics Investigation At Ste...

  Thursday May 24 | via County of Volusia 

  A bag full of hundreds of oxycodone pills was found along with marijuana and other drug paraphernalia Wednesday in a rental house at Stetson University in DeLand, earning three young men a trip to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.

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• Elderly molester faces life for sex attacks on Orlando girl

  Thursday May 24 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  A 71-year-old Daytona Beach man will likely die behind bars after being found guilty this week of molesting an Orlando girl during a six-month period ending in May 2011. 3 comments

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• Daytona man, 71, convicted of molesting 9-year-old girl

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  A 71-year-old Daytona Beach man was convicted Wednesday by a jury of molesting a 9-year-old girl over a six-month period, a State Attorney's Office spokeswoman said.

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• 3 DeLand middle schoolers charged with stealing $20,...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Three suspended DeLand Middle School students used their free time to break into a home and steal cash and items worth more than $20,000, Volusia County sheriff's investigators said.

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• Anti-terror expert schools Daytona Beach police

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  That's the point former U.S. Marine and New York Police Department Sgt. Chris Strom wanted to drive home Wednesday at Daytona Beach police headquarters for 10 officers enrolled in his crash counter-terrorism training course.

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• Police look for 'pros' in $62K scam of Daytona Beach...

  Wednesday May 23 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  A pair of scammers talked an 87-year-old woman into giving them $62,000 before running off, and it's likely they've done it before, the police chief said.

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