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The dedication ceremony is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Monday, President's Day, at Memorial Park; city staff invited residents to attend.

Officials said the city previously acquired an airplane and an anchor for the same veterans memorial and described the new tank as the culmination of a multi‑year effort to add an Army memorial element to the site.

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\"We are around 3 to 4,000 entries over this weekend, which is up from about 2,000 entries from the week prior,\" a sheriff's operations representative said while describing weekend beach traffic and event planning.

Officials said entries could rise to 20,000–22,000 by early April as spring break, Race Week and Bike Week approach. Planning includes multi‑jurisdiction coordination across Orange, Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties, concentrated enforcement and public messaging about parking and off‑beach options.

The briefing noted that county residents can use Park Volusia for off‑beach parking with free parking options while on‑beach parking is paid. Officials encouraged residents to use off‑beach parking lots to reduce congestion on the beach strip during major events.

Context

Speakers framed the increase as seasonal and tied to multiple large events: race visitors, Bike Week, spring break and major holiday weekends in May. Officials did not announce new ordinances or fees at the meeting.

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\"We did a pilot with Evolve. It's probably one of the best metal detector systems that they have,\" Captain Smith, director of safety and security for Volusia County Schools and commander of the youth services section for the sheriff's office, said while describing trials at Deltona High School and Spruce Creek High School.

During the pilot at Deltona High School, officials said staff recovered multiple vaping devices in a trash can and one large knife concealed on a student. School and sheriff's officials said the trials demonstrated the technology's deterrent effect and helped detect concealed items.

Smith said the district is working to expand screening so that every secondary‑school student (middle and high school) would pass through a metal detector, and the district filed a grant to support access control upgrades. The grant application includes provisions for remote access card readers that would allow doors to be opened electronically and disabled during an emergency.

The briefing also covered threat‑management documentation and training: school officials said they will migrate threat management to a compliance team to improve documentation and monitoring, and they plan training for open‑air response scenarios based on FBI active‑shooter incident reviews.

Context and next steps

Smith said coordination between the sheriff's crime center and school radio calls helped resolve an out‑of‑control parent fight at a campus within minutes, giving dispatchers camera images that let field units reduce response size when the scene was controlled.

School officials said they plan additional training for school resource officers and continued integration of school and sheriff office systems. No new policy or budget vote was recorded during the briefing.

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Sheriff's Office officials reported that last year's overall case clearance rate was about 77.94 percent and said the city is seeing improved results so far this year. \"So, again, we're on track as far as improvement,\" Captain Israel said, summarizing January figures.

The sheriff's presentation emphasized gains on person-crime clearances and described several recent case developments that contributed to that improvement. Officials said person-crime clearance rates rose to roughly 90–95 percent so far this year, and property-crime clearance was reported at about 60 percent, lifting the overall clearance rate to about 81 percent to date.

Why it matters: higher clearance rates can affect community confidence and case outcomes. County and city officials attributed those gains to new technology, targeted enforcement and interagency cooperation.

Notable incidents and investigations

- A vehicle pursuit that began in DeBary and continued onto I‑4 ended in Seminole County after the vehicle triggered a license‑plate reader; deputies arrested the driver on multiple fleeing and felony charges, the sheriff said.

- A motor‑vehicle theft reported at Rob Sullivan Park was solved within about 90 minutes after surveillance video and interagency tips identified a suspect; Lieutenant Tucker led the follow‑up and the case was cleared by arrest.

- Multiple vehicle burglaries and related arrests across DeBary and Deltona resulted in recovery of a stolen handgun, a wallet and other property; one arrested suspect faces multiple felony charges, including armed burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and will be prosecuted under enhanced recidivist provisions, the presentation said.

- Several shoplifting and theft reports — including a case involving about $800 in stolen tools and a separate incident where rims worth $4,200 were disputed — were forwarded to the state attorney's office or to criminal investigation divisions for further work.

Fraud and the financial crimes unit

Officials highlighted work by the financial crimes unit on elderly‑targeted scams. In one instance, a DeBary resident was convinced by someone posing as a military officer on social media to purchase gift cards totaling about $31,000; investigators said the victim had deleted records that might have aided prosecution. The county’s Criminal Investigations Division (CID) also described larger efforts to track and seize illicit assets. The CID representative said the unit has recovered roughly $1.1 million since it began focusing on these schemes.

\"Most people focus on who the doer is ... Normally that person's overseas; you're never gonna arrest them. Now we're focusing on the assets,\" the CID representative said.

Sheriff leadership said the office will bring representatives of a major fraud ring to brief the public and victims at a planned February 19 event; officials said the event will include a victim who had funds recovered.

Context and caveats

Speakers noted that classification changes to incident reporting — the move to the National Incident‑Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and Florida’s incident reporting standards — mean year‑to‑year crime counts are not directly comparable in all categories. \"There’s not any more crime that’s occurring; it just looks different on paper,\" Lieutenant Thompson explained while summarizing changes in reporting methodology.

Officials credited technology — license plate readers, surveillance integration and tracking devices — along with focused patrol operations for many of the recent clearances.

Ending

City and county officials praised the partnership between the City of DeBary and the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and said they will continue public education about fraud prevention and targeted enforcement strategies.

","At a City of DeBary ComStat briefing, the sheriff's office reported improved clearance rates for person and property crimes, described several recent arrests tied to theft and a fleeing case, and outlined work by the financial crimes unit that recovered roughly $1.1 million.","actionData","errors"]

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