ABOVE: Video of the man’s arrestA man has been arrested after deputies in Volusia County say he attacked someone at a gas station. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to an area near the Volusia County Fairgrounds shortly before 10 a.m. Monday. A surveyor reported a naked man approached him while carrying a machete.”The victim said the suspect was picking palmetto berries in the woods, but eventually came running out of the brush brandishing the machete and demanding his clothes, wallet and phone,” a release states.The surveyor said the suspect hurled the machete and palmetto berries at him. Luckily, he was hit by the handle of the machete and wasn’t badly injured.A responding deputy said the circumstances reminded him of a similar incident involving Brandon Wright in 2021. Wright’s vehicle passed a license plate reader in the DeLand area, and soon after that it was reported that a naked man was outside a gas station in DeLand. Wright surrendered without incident. He is charged with attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.He was taken to the Volusia County Jail.
ABOVE: Video of the man’s arrest
A man has been arrested after deputies in Volusia County say he attacked someone at a gas station.
According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to an area near the Volusia County Fairgrounds shortly before 10 a.m. Monday.
A surveyor reported a naked man approached him while carrying a machete.
“The victim said the suspect was picking palmetto berries in the woods, but eventually came running out of the brush brandishing the machete and demanding his clothes, wallet and phone,” a release states.
The surveyor said the suspect hurled the machete and palmetto berries at him. Luckily, he was hit by the handle of the machete and wasn’t badly injured.
A responding deputy said the circumstances reminded him of a similar incident involving Brandon Wright in 2021. Wright’s vehicle passed a license plate reader in the DeLand area, and soon after that it was reported that a naked man was outside a gas station in DeLand.
Wright surrendered without incident.
He is charged with attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He was taken to the Volusia County Jail.