by Stephanie Allen

December 12, 2016

 

Police say a Volusia County man faked a hate crime, set his ex-girlfriend’s car on fire and then staged his own abduction to throw off detectives.

Vincent Palmer, 27, told detectives he taped a note with racial slurs and the words “KKK” and “Trump” written on it to his ex-girlfriend’s mailbox early Saturday before throwing a brick through her car window and dousing the back seat in gasoline because they were having problems over the custody of their children, according to an arrest report.

Ormond Beach police and firefighters responded to the woman’s home on Biltmore Drive shortly after 5:30 a.m. Saturday after she found her car on fire in the driveway. She told police a neighbor woke her up to make sure everyone in the house, where her family has lived since the 1970s, was safe.

Officers noticed brick in the back seat and called the State Fire Marshal’s Office to investigate the fire as suspicious, a report states.

 

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