Daytona Beach, FL – Investigators arrest a 21-year-old man for carjacking the president of Keiser University’s Daytona Beach campus earlier this month and that president may soon be joining him behind bars for soliciting underage girls for sex.
That’s the word from Daytona Beach Police Department Chief Mike Chitwood during his “Ask The Chief” segment with WNDB’s Marc Bernier on Friday.
DBPD took William Dune Smith into custody on Thursday and charged him with carjacking and carrying a concealed gun in the August 9th incident featuring Keiser University Daytona President Matt McEnany at Lenox Park.
Smith is held on $21,000 bond at Volusia County Jail as of 5pm Friday.
McEnany could soon be joining Smith in custody as Chitwood confirmed during the interview that he is asking 7th Circuit State Attorney RJ Larizza to file several charges against the 60-year-old related to soliciting 3 teenage girls for sex.
According to Chitwood, the 3 girls are 13, 14 and 15 years of age, with the eldest being 9 months pregnant.
“[McEnany] told the investigators,” Chitwood added. “[McEnany’s] words were he was going up there to meet girls to have sex. I mean, that’s what he tells us.”
DBPD thinks McEnany was acting as a “sugar daddy” to the 3 girls and that Smith decided to use the girls to set McEnany up for a robbery when Smith discovered sexually graphic text messages from McEnany on one of the girl’s cell phones.
The arrest report shows that McEnany was engaged in conversations to pay for a “threesome” with 2 of the girls and that he made statements about having sex with the 15-year-old once she had given birth.
Investigators also think 2 of the girls cooperated with Smith in his plan to assault and rob McEnany by telling McEnany to get out of the car once he arrived at Lenox Park so that Smith would be able to emerge from some nearby bushes and attack him.
DBPD believes Smith and the 2 girls left the scene in McEnany’s 2011 Toyota Venza after the attack, leaving him stranded.
The vehicle was recovered hours later in the parking lot of Halifax Health Medical Center as a 911 call from witnesses sent DBPD to the scene.
Chitwood said during the interview that Larizza’s office still needs to review all the case files – including taped interviews with the 3 girls made by his detectives – before any decision is made on arresting McEnany.
The arrest report shows Smith admitting to being at the scene the night of the attack but denying that he was the man who attacked McEnany.
Keiser University announced soon after the carjacking that McEnany was suspended from his job, but Chitwood said that the school didn’t appear to be aware or directly involved with what McEnany was apparently doing in his free time.
Chitwood also felt that there wasn’t much danger of McEnany leaving the area before a decision was made on whether or not to arrest him.
VCJ records show Smith’s been booked there 6 other times since May 2013 on a host of charges, including marijuana possession, retail theft, armed robbery, trespassing, grand theft auto, driving with a suspended license and loitering.
William Dune Smith (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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