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September 24, 2014
A Deltona man faces an attempted first degree murder charge for hitting a woman with a chair and then pouring gasoline all over her.
46-year-old Anthony R. Van Buren of Courtland Boulevard is held without bond at the Volusia County Jail on that charge as well as a drug offense following his arrest on Saturday by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
Even though it was VCSO who put him in handcuffs, the Orange City Police Department says it all started in their city around 9:45am Friday at the Orange City Motel on South Volusia Avenue. That’s when one of their officers found 34-year-old Erica L. Galfo of Deltona in the parking lot crying and covered in gasoline.
According to the arrest report, Galfo claimed she and Van Buren had rented a room at the motel the night before and it was in the morning when Van Buren accused her of setting him up to be arrested on a narcotics trafficking charge.
At that point, police say Van Buren told Galfo she “was going to die today” and that’s when she said he hit her over the head with a wooden chair and choked her by grabbing her neck.
Per the report, Galfo claims she managed to get Van Buren to calm down by acting “nice” and she went to bed soon after that. Once she woke up, though, Galfo says she went to the bathroom inside the motel room and that’s when Van Buren attacked her again, this time with the gasoline.
Van Buren poured gas on Galfo and all over the bathroom, telling her while he was doing it that she was “going to pay for her sins,” per the report.
Galfo told OCPD she begged Van Buren for her life while he blocked the hotel room door, but she managed to run away a few minutes later after he stepped away from the door to look for his cigarettes.
By the time officers arrived, Van Buren was not in the hotel room, but OCPD noted a strong smell of gas in the room as well as on Galfo’s person. She also had red marks around her neck and a large bump on the back of her head, but she turned down treatment from the paramedics who came to the scene.
OCPD says they weren’t able to find Van Buren after searching the immediate area, but they and VCSO managed to track him down the following day to a home on Hope Avenue in Deltona and he was arrested after they found him hiding in a closet.
Van Buren refused to answer questions about what happened to investigators, per his arrest report.
VCJ records show he’s been arrested 3 other times since December 2011, including in May 2014 for selling a synthetic drug within 1,000 feet of a school, park or church. His prior charges include witness tampering, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, cocaine possession, battery and leaving the scene of an accident.
