City of Daytona Beach Shores recently issued the following announcement.
Five Orlando-area teenagers trying to break into vehicles at a Daytona Beach Shores hotel early Friday, March 4, fled from a Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Officer who attempted to stop their vehicle on South Atlantic Avenue (A1A) but were soon found hiding in a residential neighborhood and arrested.
Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department responded to Castaways Resort at 2043 S. Atlantic Ave. after receiving a call at 2:45 a.m. about a group of teens going from car to car in the parking lot, attempting to open car doors. A short time later, Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Sgt. Richard Rademacher spotted the suspect vehicle headed south on South Atlantic Avenue (A1A) and attempted a traffic stop for speeding.
The driver failed to stop and, instead, fled at a high rate of speed over the Dunlawton Bridge into Port Orange. The Port Orange Police Department was notified, and Port Orange officers observed the suspect vehicle turning off of Dunlawton Avenue near the Port Orange Post Office.
Sgt. Rademacher saw several juveniles running through a nearby neighborhood, and officers from Daytona Beach Shores and Port Orange Police Department received assistance from a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office helicopter and a K-9 unit from Daytona Beach Police Department to locate the teens. One was hiding in a parked camper in a residential area and the others under a porch behind a house.
The abandoned vehicle – which was later determined to have been stolen from Orlando – was located behind a residence on Samms Avenue, off Dunlawton Avenue east of Nova Road in Port Orange.
All five teens, ages 15, 16 and 17, were arrested. One was charged with burglary and loitering and prowling by Port Orange Police Department, and the remaining four were charged with loitering and prowling by the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department. Several of them were also charged with a car burglary that occurred in Daytona Beach earlier the same morning. Additional charges are pending related to the stolen car.
Detectives have determined at least two vehicles were damaged by the attempted break-ins in Daytona Beach Shores. Local police agencies are also investigating possible ties to other car burglaries.
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