Daytona Beach board orders 7-day closure, background checks and $5,000 payment for Jay’s Food Store

The Daytona Beach Nuisance Abatement Board voted Jan. 15 to close Jay’s Food Store, at 600 North Ridgewood Avenue, for seven days and to require background checks for all store employees and contracted security guards and payment of a previously ordered $5,000 assessment by Feb. 4, 2025.

The board’s action followed testimony from the store owner, the store’s counsel and the owner of a contracted security firm, and a sworn affidavit and compiled call log by Daytona Beach Police Department code liaison Sergeant Shauna Conley. “I put this list together by going through what's called our CAD system,” Sergeant Conley told the board, and said her review found “199 calls … originated from that property” between Feb. 2, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025; 27 of the calls were initiated by store employees or security and 15 of those 27 were trespass calls.

Why it matters: The board opened the continuation hearing on case 2024‑NAB‑41 after finding Jay’s Food Store a public nuisance in February 2024 and issuing an order that included requirements for security during business hours, unobstructed windows, crime‑prevention lighting, camera upgrades and registration with the police department’s trespass initiative. Board members said testimony and the police log showed recurring problems linked to activity on the property and that, in the board’s judgment, some requirements of the February 2024 order remained unmet.

What the hearing covered: Owner Raymond Sayed testified he had implemented many of the board’s prior instructions, had enrolled in the police trespass program and said he had spent roughly…