DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- A woman living in a beachfront condo threatened to burn a fellow tenant in a somewhat elaborate plan that involved a Molotov-style cocktail she fashioned from a bottle of Bud Light, police said.
John According to an arrest report, 46-year-old Maria Michelle John had the scheme all planned: she bought a gas can and gasoline at a nearby 7-Eleven and went back to her room to plan her move.
Her idea got her arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and manufacturing and possession of a firebomb, an arrest report shows.
Police were called to the condominium, 3501 S. Atlantic Ave., just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday, when another tenant there was threatened by John.
The tenant, Jason Ward, told police that John had told him to get off the property, and that she would burn him if he didn't leave, the report says.
When Ward saw John later that day in front of his room door, he avoided her and went down to the parking lot of the building. John, however, armed with a gasoline-filled beer bottle, a white towel stuffed inside and a lighter, followed Ward downstairs, the report says.
Ward knocked the bottle out of John's hand, spilling gasoline all over the parking lot and his hands. He called 9-1-1.
When officers arrived, they headed toward John's room and could smell gasoline even before they went inside, the report shows.
They found John on the balcony; they also spotted two more beer bottles -- filled with gasoline and stuffed with white towels -- in her bathroom. The red gasoline can John had purchased at the convenience store was nearby, police said.
When officers questioned John, she told them that two other tenants at the Pirates Cove who lived upstairs from her were killing babies on the Internet, the report says. She also mumbled something about the Green Berets and said they were burning rooms, police said.
That's when officers decided John was a threat to herself and probably the other tenants of the Pirates Cove, the report shows.
John is being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on $24,000 bail.