Daytona Beach, FL – A 22-year-old convicted felon and wanted fugitive is found holed up in a Daytona Beach home after allegedly robbing a man he knew.
Dillon J. Calisi gave himself up to the Daytona Beach Police Department around 4:30pm Monday after police say he threatened to kill himself if officers tried to force him out of a home on Wilson Avenue.
SWAT units surrounded the home and the surrounding area – including along Madison Avenue – soon after the call for help came in around 3pm Monday.
DBPD Sergeant Jimmie Flynt says it all started when a man called in saying that Calisi pulled a gun on him while trying to rob him earlier in the day.
“At first, the victim could not be located,” Flynt stated. “He was [eventually] located at [a] McDonald’s in Holly Hill.”
DBPD surrounded the home at 417 Wilson Avenue after learning that Calisi had left the scene in a tan Buick that was traced to that address, per Flynt.
“One suspect was taken into custody,” Flynt noted. “Another suspect fled to a back bedroom, locked the door and advised that if police came in he would commit suicide.”
Officers backed away and began talking to Calisi, eventually talking him out of the home and taking him into custody at that point, according to DBPD.
DBPD identified the other suspect taken into custody as 28-year-old Benjamin Bennett of Daytona Beach. As of Noon Tuesday, he’s held on $40,000 bond at Volusia County Jail on charges of attempted armed robbery and kidnapping.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show Calisi was a wanted fugitive who was placed on 3 years of community supervision for violently resisting an officer last January.
Calisi also served nearly a year in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and has been booked at Volusia County Jail 10 other times since July 2011 for various charges, including armed burglary, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, threatening a public official and petit theft.
Mugshots posted below are courtesy of VCJ.
Dillon J. Calisi
Benjamin Bennett
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