A mother and father and their four children were spending some time together in their backyard near DeLand on a recent Sunday night.
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DeLand police officers were driving west on New York Avenue early in the morning May 24 when they saw a car at the intersection of New York and Arlington “resting at an angle against the curb.”
A Volusia County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a supermarket in Deltona on May 23 regarding shoplifting.
A loss-prevention officer at a big-box store in DeLand called police April 27 to report that a 37-year-old guy who was previously trespassed from the store by police (a mere 16 days before) had now returned.
Early in the morning May 9, two DeLand police officers were in the parking lot at a retail center on North Woodland Boulevard when they heard a truck being driven into the lot and making a lot of noise.
An Orlando Man showed up April 23 at the house in Deltona his girlfriend shares with her stepfather.
A DeLand-area man in his late 40s got into a quarrel with his fiancee April 24. He seized a closed bow saw and threw it at his beloved, cutting her shin.
A DeLand-area man in his late 40s got into a quarrel with his fiancee April 24. He seized a closed bow saw and threw it at his beloved, cutting her shin.
An Orlando Man showed up April 23 at the house in Deltona his girlfriend shares with her stepfather.
A Deltona guy in his late 40s went to work at his boss’s house March 26. He got angry when he found the boss, who had had a bad headache, asleep in bed, because it meant Deltona Guy had no work to do.
A woman in her early 20s (whom we will call “Fanny”) told sheriff’s deputies April 4 that she, her sister, and her sister’s husband had drinks in Sanford earlier that day and then returned to the couple’s home in Deltona.
A fellow drove his pickup truck into the loading-zone area in front of a convenience store in DeBary the night of March 28. He exited his truck at the same time as an employee of the store who was parked next to him got out of his car.
The assistant manager of a DeLand grocery store saw a young woman enter the store the afternoon of Sept. 19 and, several minutes later, saw her quickly exit the store, holding her purse close to her body.
On March 20, a DeLand police officer was sent to the area of North Stone Street and West Minnesota Avenue regarding a report that someone had stolen some construction signs.
A DeLand police officer was dispatched to a home in DeLand March 23, where a husband said his wife “had been angry with him all morning” and “was telling him to say he was sorry for an unknown reason.”
A DeLand police officer was patrolling the parking lot of a big-box store just before midnight March 11 and located a pickup truck with no visible license plate.
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Shortly after 4 a.m. Dec. 5, DeLand police officers responded to a motel in DeLand, where they learned that a man had rented a room for himself and his girlfriend (in her mid-20s). Boyfriend said he and the young woman had “been in an ongoing intimate relationship for several months.”
A police officer was sent to a DeLand supermarket Dec. 9 regarding an instance of shoplifting.
A DeLand police officer found a gray-haired man in his early 60s asleep on South Alabama Avenue early in the morning of Dec. 13.
A DeLand police officer was dispatched to a supermarket in south DeLand on the afternoon of Nov. 2 regarding a shoplifting incident that the supermarket manager believed he had observed.
Felony facing fellow for flinging french fries at Frau
A Deltona woman told deputies Oct. 17 that she was sitting in her parked car in her front yard at about 6 p.m., “when she felt something hit her vehicle.”
A DeLand police officer headed to the scene of a reported domestic dispute on Saturday morning, Oct. 5. On the way to the location, dispatch told him a woman was using a vehicle to try to run over a man.
A Deltona man told a sheriff’s deputy July 25 that someone stole his Glock pistol, which had been lying on a nightstand in the victim’s bedroom. The firearm had been loaded and was in a holster.
A woman living in the DeLand area told Volusia County sheriff’s deputies July 14 that a guy she doesn’t know “had rammed her gate with his vehicle and was rummaging through her vehicle.”
A guy in Deltona got in a quarrel July 1 with his pregnant live-in girlfriend because she spent the whole day at SeaWorld.
Two individuals went “shopping” at a DeLand-area grocery store late at night June 26.
On July 2 in Deltona, one young woman asked another young woman if she could braid her hair.
Two guys walked into a store in the DeLand area June 26. One of them took a box containing a new pair of boots off a shelf, and he put the new boots on his feet. Then he dropped his old boots into the box and put it back on the shelf.
A boyfriend and girlfriend recently rented a houseboat and spent the day on the St. Johns River. While out there, the girl asked the guy to hide her cash in a tissue box.
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