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New Smyrna, Florida -- On December 16, 2013 at approximately 1:38 p.m., a witness contacted the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and advised she observed an intoxicated person operating a motor vehicle with a juvenile inside. The witness stated...
Volusia County -- A man who reported finding an abandoned newborn baby wrapped in newspaper outside of a convenience store, was actually the man that left the baby there in the first place.
According to reports, Ralph Garlick Jr.,53, had...
DeLand, Florida -- 911 Operator: When was the last time you saw it?
Driver: Three o'clock yesterday was the last time I saw the truck. It's hooked to a trailer as well, fully loaded, with chocolate.
911 Operator: Fully loaded...
Volusia County, Florida -- An off-duty public safety telecommunications officer with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office who was arrested after she pointed a gun at a reporter that had went to her house to try to interview her for...
Ocala, Florida -- Detective Fernandez has continued to investigate the shooting homicide of Samuel Washington, 28, that occurred on November 14, 2013. During the investigation, Detective Fernandez arrested two suspects for related charges -- Howard Lee Hill, 20, and Laquan...
Volusia County, Florida -- A Volusia County cold case homicide has remained stubbornly unsolved for four decades. Few, if any, useful clues have survived the passing years. Today's investigators don't even have a name to label the thin case...
Volusia County, Florida -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office needs the public’s help to catch a man who committed an armed robbery in Deltona on the morning of Tuesday, November 5, 2013.
Around 7:30 a.m. a woman called the sheriff’s...
Daytona Beach, Florida -- Sheriff Ben Johnson and the commanders of both the investigative and search components of Yessenia Suarez case met Monday afternoon with the family of Yessenia Suarez and her children, Michael and Thalia Otto. At...
Daytona Beach, Florida -- Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators filed a murder charge Monday night October 28, 2013 against Luis Toledo, the man at the center of the disappearance of his wife and her two children. Investigators charged Toledo with...
Daytona Beach, Florida -- Luis Toledo was at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office's Operations Center talking with investigators Saturday morning. Toledo is the person of interest in the disappearance of Yessenia Suarez and her two children, 8-year-old Michael Otto...
Deltona, Florida -- The investigation into the disappearance of a Deltona mother and her two children is continuing today, with the woman’s husband , Luis Toledo,31, who was arrested and now being questioned a person of interest in the...
New Smyrna, Florida -- On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Sergeant MacDonald was advised that a Volusia County Sheriff's Office patrol vehicle was driving north on SR 415 in a very erratic manner. MacDonald was also advised that the...
Volusia County, Florida -- A convicted sex offender is facing new charges in Volusia County after authorities discovered he was having sex with an underage girl.
An investigation began after a family member of the underage girl called the probation...
Deltona, Florida -- Over the weekend, a tip led Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies to a house in Deltona where methamphetamine was being cooked in the presence of a 6-year-old child.
Investigators spent several hours clearing out the highly dangerous chemicals found...
Daytona Beach, Florida -- A man was shot by two officers in Dayton Beach early Wednesday morning after police say he held a knife to his girlfriend’s neck.
At around 2:45 a.m., police were called to a residence located at...
Volusia County is currently experiencing intermittent problems throughout the area with its emergency 911 system.
Because of the problems, some callers have been unable to reach 911 and are receiving a recording. The situation appears to be affecting both landline...
