{"id":157718,"date":"2026-02-16T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:29:22","slug":"florida-man-accused-of-causing-severe-cut-to-persons-neck-daytona-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157718\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man accused of causing severe cut to person&#8217;s neck, Daytona Beach Police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man has been arrested after officials say he intentionally cut a person&#8217;s neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers with the Daytona Beach Police Department responded to the area of South Ocean Avenue around 10 p.m. on Feb. 14 regarding reports of a juvenile&#8217;s throat slashed with an edged weapon, an arrest affidavit said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Jermaine Lynn Long, 44, was located near the overpass on the pier and was taken into custody. After interviewing multiple witnesses, police arrested Long for aggravated battery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wofl-jermaine-lynn-long.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The juvenile \u2013 whose age has not been released \u2013 had a severe cut and was transported to the hospital for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">It&#8217;s not known what led to the incident. The connection between the Long and the minor is not known at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No other people were injured, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered from the Daytona Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/volusia-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volusia County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man has been arrested after officials say he intentionally cut a person&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,115,628,2261],"class_list":{"0":"post-157718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-volusia-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}