A man wanted in connection with a domestic assault in the DeLand area surrendered to authorities on Saturday afternoon, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
Joshua Mauri turned himself in on felony charges tied to a break-in and assault at a home on Thursday night. He also faces charges related to fleeing deputies and crashing into a deputy's patrol vehicle. He is being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail without bond.
According to the sheriff's office, a DeLand mother locked herself and her children in a bedroom Thursday evening as a man forced his way into the home. Deputies said they responded to a 911 call around 7:30 p.m. after the man, identified as Mauri, broke into the house.
"Responding deputies were listening to a frantic call on Live911 until Mauri took the victim's phone, smashed it, and threatened to do the same to her face," the sheriff's office said in a release. "Mauri fled the scene in a black Porsche SUV, nearly hitting the first deputy arriving on scene."
The deputy started pursuing Mauri but broke off the chase because he could no longer hear the victim on Live911, the sheriff's office explained. He returned to the house instead to check on the woman's well-being.
"She was OK but afraid for her life," the release states.
Investigators said Mauri came back to the scene around 1:30 a.m. Friday while deputies were still in the area. As deputies approached him, he reversed his SUV and rammed into the front of a patrol vehicle, according to the release.
Mauri then sped off through the yard, through a fence and onto State Road 44, crossing into Lake County, the sheriff's office said.
He faces charges of domestic assault, robbery by sudden snatching, deprivation of 911, fleeing, aggravated fleeing, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and criminal mischief.
Before his surrender, authorities had urged anyone who saw Mauri to call 911. His court appearance date was not immediately released.
