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Courtesy photos. Volunteers pick up the beached wreckage of a 46-foot trimaran that broke loose from its mooring in Ponce Inlet overnight, struck the South Jetty and literally shattered into thousands of pieces, before washing ashore along a half-mile stretch of the New Smyrna Beach coastline, just noth of the Beachway ramp.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- It took the better part of the day to clean up a half-mile stretch of coastline from the Beachway approach and north of thousands of wooden pieces from a 46-foot-long boat that broke apart overnight while moored in Ponce Inlet.

The 1965 trimaran with a wooden hull came undone from the mooring and apparently drifted, apparently crashing into the boulders of the South Jetty and breaking up.

NSBNEWS.net photo (far left) by Henry Frederick. Courtesy photo (at left). Mayoral candidate Marilee Walters (far left) and City Commissioner candidate Judy Reiker take notes during Wednesday night's City Commission meeting regarding the Angler's Yacht Club lease.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- 43-year-old New Smyrna Beacvh man was arrested Wednesday on charges of stealing several checks from a beachside business and trying to cash them at Amscot and the Sun Trust Bank in New Smyrna Beach, Sjheriff's deputies said.

Phillip Matthew Flint was in the process of cashing the uttered items at Amscott when the victim was contacted by Amscot representatives
due to the sequential nature of her business checks, deputies said.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Thursday's second annual Shrimp and Seafood Festival on Flagler Avenue drew several thousand people and that made Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce President Robert Lott a happy man.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.

ORMOND BEACH -- A biker was killed Thursday after slamming his Suzuki into the back of a van stopped at the railroad tracks on Granada Boulevard, Ormond Beach police said.

Brian Amick, 35, of Daytona Beach, who was not wearing a helmet, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 10:05 a.m. accident, police said.

The van was behind a school bus, stopped at the railroad crossing by law, when the eastbound biker crashed into the van, police said.

The impact broke the motorcycle into several pieces, police said.

NSBNEWS.net video by Sera Frederick.

DEBARY -- Three store clerks are facing criminal charges following an undercover sting operation Friday night in the DeBary area aimed at combating the sale of alcohol to minors, said a spokesman for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

The operation was conducted by the Sheriff's Office in conjunction with the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco.

DELAND -- A multi-agency crime suppression operation targeting gang activity and street crimes such as robbery, burglary, drugs and auto theft swept through West Volusia Friday night, resulting in 41 arrests and 90 traffic citations, said a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman.

The arrests included eight for felony offenses and 33 for misdemeanors.