Patricio G. Balona

1 week ago | news-journalonline.com | Patricio G. Balona

PIERSON - Jose Martinez remembers how, in 1973, he and his parents arrived at night at a small gas station in Barberville to work for a fern grower. The farmer met them and guided them to Pierson. The following day, a new world opened before him, but unlike now, there were few Mexican neighbors and little sign of the Mexican cuisine his family was used to. “Oh, there was nothing here then,” Martinez recalled recently over coffee at a Pierson restaurant.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Patricio G. Balona

Deputies are searching for an Edgewater man who posed as a licensed roofer and took $21,000 from a Port Orange resident without doing any work, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. Andrew Ingram, 43, of Busy Bee Roofing in Edgewater, is wanted for fraud and theft, according to a Facebook post by the sheriff's office. After accepting the $21,000 in November, Ingram never applied for a permit, delivered material, or showed up on any of his promised start dates, sheriff's deputies said.

2 weeks ago | news-journalonline.com | Patricio G. Balona

An Osteen woman is facing animal cruelty charges for leaving behind several dogs, a cat, and a turtle when she fled Hurricane Milton for Indiana in October, according to animal control officers. One of the dogs died. Five days after Cassie Volkers left, neighbors detected a foul odor emanating from her home. Volkers was charged with eight counts of felony animal cruelty and eight counts of unlawful confinement/abandonment of animals.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Patricio G. Balona

An Osteen woman is facing animal cruelty charges for leaving behind several dogs, a cat, and a turtle when she fled Hurricane Milton for Indiana in October, according to animal control officers. One of the dogs died. Five days after Cassie Volkers left, neighbors detected a foul odor emanating from her home. Volkers was charged with eight counts of felony animal cruelty and eight counts of unlawful confinement/abandonment of animals.

3 weeks ago | news-journalonline.com | Patricio G. Balona

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is asking the public to help them find a golf cart driver who attacked a motorist in a road rage incident in DeBary last month. Deputies have followed many leads in the case but have not been able to find the golf cart driver or his identity, according to sheriff's office Facebook post. The incident occurred on March 5 at Sackett Road and Lake Drive in DeBary, the sheriff's office said.