Volusia Sheriff

HEADS UP: N. Normandy Boulevard in the @CityofDeltonaFL is shut down between Swallow Street and Elkam Bouleavard (including side streets within that boundary) due to a major crash. Please be aware this closure could last for several hours. Please avoid the area and use an alternate route.

MISSING JUVENILE: Jazmyne Walters, 16, left her DeLand home on Nov. 3, 2026, and has not returned. If you have information about her whereabouts, please contact zbacon@volusiasheriff.gov or cforster@volusiasheriff.gov.

Saluting veterans in Volusia County and across the USA 🇺🇸

Veterans, families and grateful citizens gathered this morning at the Ponce Inlet Veterans Memorial, where Master Sgt. Lamar Schlemmer (U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army) received a Quilt of Valor.

@SheriffChitwood ran into high school classmate Larry Henigan, Lt. Col USMC Reserve (Retired), 26 1/2 year Combat Engineer.

Thank you Ponce Inlet and the Ponce Inlet Veterans Memorial Association for your continued commitment to honoring all who served our country.

For a criminal, it's never a good sign when the 3 letter agencies show up. Over the past month, a partnership between VSO, @FBI, @HSI_HQ and @DaytonaBchPD has produced arrests of 120 wanted fugitives, drug dealers and child predators. @SheriffChitwood

Joshua Mauri is wanted on several felony charges stemming from a domestic violence call last night.

Around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, deputies responded to a 911 call in DeLand where the victim locked herself and her kids in a bedroom while Mauri broke into the house. Responding deputies were listening to a frantic call on Live911 until Mauri took the victim's phone, smashed it, and threatened to do the same to her face.

Mauri fled the scene in a black Porsche SUV, nearly hitting the first deputy arriving on scene. The deputy started after him, but because he could no longer hear the victim on 911, he went back to the house to check on her. She was OK but afraid for her life.

Deputies were still in the area around 1:30 a.m. when Mauri returned. When approached, Mauri reversed his SUV, rammed into the front of a patrol vehicle, and took off fleeing at high speed through the yard, through a fence, onto SR 44 and into Lake County.

Mauri is facing charges including domestic assault, robbery by sudden snatching, deprivation of 911, fleeing, aggravated fleeing, aggravated battery on LEO, and criminal mischief. Call 911 if seen.