{"id":247932,"date":"2026-04-27T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247932\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:25:30","slug":"lawsuit-daytona-beach-spring-break-takeovers-cost-taxpayers-800000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247932\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: Daytona Beach Spring Break takeovers cost taxpayers $800,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood has partnered with a law firm to file civil lawsuits against alleged two social media promoters, who promoted unsanctioned, unpermitted &#8220;takeover&#8221; events over Spring Break in Daytona Beach.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, it cost taxpayers more than $800,000 as law enforcement had to bring in extra resources to handle the crowds, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 24, 2026 9:47pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood has partnered with a law firm to file civil lawsuits against alleged two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-247932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247932","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=247932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}