By: Brandon Haught Deltona, Fl (April 25, 2012) – With a can of soda and a can of beer shoved down his pants, a man threatened a store clerk with a knife when she confronted him about his shoplifting attempt. Fortunately, no one was hurt as 25-year-old Steven Gilb (5/30/1986) fled the Deltona store on [...]

For 25 years, his sense of civic duty and infectious, positive attitude and good humor were hallmarks of his service record. Even a battle with cancer in his 20s couldn’t slow down Vinnie Vecchi, who returned to continue his career at the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office after a life-saving bone marrow transplant and then went [...]

By: Gary Davidson Deltona, Fl (February 17, 2012) – An ex-employee at the Deltona Hills Golf & Country Club is facing an arson charge after he was accused of torching the clubhouse early Friday morning because he was angry at his former employer. Responding Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies tracked the defendant, 31-year-old Rodney Grimes, to [...]

By: Brandon Haught Ormond Beach, FL (February 16, 20120 – A U.S. Marine deployed for more than six months was shocked to discover when he returned home that thousands of dollars were missing from his bank account. Making matters worse, he suspected the culprit was his own mother. An investigation by the Volusia County Sheriff’s [...]

By: Brandon Haught Deltona, FL (January 23, 2012) – Don’t make life easy for car thieves by leaving your car keys in the ignition. It might seem harmless to leave a car running in a store’s parking lot while you dash inside “just for a minute.” But that minute is all opportunistic thieves need to [...]

By: Gary Davidson  Deltona, FL (January 22, 2012)  – Suspects fleeing from a residential burglary in Deltona Saturday night rolled their car on its side while trying to get away from responding Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies. Thanks to an alert resident who spotted the break-in as it was happening, deputies were able to nab five suspects, [...]

By: Gary Davidson Deltona, Fl (November 2, 2011) – Update: The missing woman, Hazel Robbins, has been located. A resident onWakefield Circle, about a half-mile from where Robbins went missing, spotted the 86-year-old woman in his backyard. Robbins was recovered at about 2:25 p.m. After paramedics finish checking her out, she’ll be brought home to [...]

By: Gary Davidson Deltona, FL (October 7, 2011) – A pair of shoplifting suspects managed to get away from Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies Wednesday night, and one has puncture marks on the back of his shirt from a deputy’s Taser to prove it. But when the duo broke into a car the next night, their [...]

By: Brandon Haught Deltona, FL (October 4, 2011) – A Deltona man had a busy, crime-filled Monday, including breaking into a home while the resident was still inside, stealing a truck from a church parking lot and snatching a Walmart shopper’s purse. But that last crime was foiled by a father and son Good Samaritan [...]