DeLand, FL - A violent criminal is off the streets after the Volusia Sheriff’s Office West Volusia Crime Suppression Team found and arrested him Thursday (December 26). The team got information on the vehicle that 20-year-old Kevin Gaines, Jr. has been driving and tracked him to a home located at 409 W. Beresford.
A deputy spotted the vehicle at the home. Investigators, monitoring Instagram, found that Gaines was live on the app. A detective determined that Gaines was in the house. He pointed his spotlight at a window and could see the light show up in the live Instagram video shortly before it abruptly ended. Deputies and DeLand Police officers surrounded the home and Gaines was taken into custody without incident.
An active search for Gaines began on November 16 after his bond was revoked and new charges were brought. VSO reports that Gaines was involved in a drive-by shooting at an Ormond Beach skating rink in November 2018. The second crime was an armed carjacking in Deltona in December 2018.
Three firearms were recovered from the home yesterday along with another found underneath a vehicle in the driveway. Gaines has a new charge of possession of a firearm by a delinquent, along with his warrants for grand theft auto, criminal mischief and no valid driver’s license, along with warrants for bond revocation on previous charges of discharging a firearm from a vehicle, two counts of possession of a firearm by a delinquent, fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and no valid driver’s license. He's at the Volusia County Jail beingheld without bond.
