DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The police department calls for service log at Daytona Beach’s Sun Plaza Motel on U.S.
1 for the past three years is 17 pages long. The motel only has eight rooms. Police have been called out, largely in 2020, for overdoses, fights, disturbances, trespassers, vandalism, warrants, shootings and even murder.
Capt. Scott Lee said it’s a little motel with big problems. “It got so bad that we had two people shooting at each other, had to station police out here after that,” Lee said. “This has kind of been the epicenter of problems in this area.
It’s a constant flow, a constant flow of people coming in and out of this property buying and using narcotics. And that has a trickle effect, trickles down to the surrounding people