October 6, 2011
Brandon Haught
Public Information Office

SEX OFFENDER ARRESTED FOR STALKING

A convicted sex offender was arrested Wednesday on an arrest warrant obtained by Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators charging him with aggravated stalking of a victim under 16 years old. The actual stalking incident happened Monday morning near DeLand when a female middle school student reported that a man in a truck had slowly driven by her a few times as she walked to her bus stop and then stopped his truck close to her, putting her in fear for her safety. The suspicious man was later identified as Donald Quick, who had been convicted in 2001 of lewd or lascivious battery on a victim between 12 and 15 years old.

On Monday at about 8 a.m. the 14-year-old girl was walking to her bus stop in a secluded area near the intersection of Twin Oaks Drive and Grand Avenue when she saw a truck approaching her. She later told investigators that the truck slowed down considerably as it passed and the driver was obviously looking directly at her. The driver then turned the truck around and slowly drove by her again while continuing to gaze at her. The truck turned down a dead end street and returned a moment later. The driver stopped his truck close enough to the girl for her to clearly see inside, and at that point the girl was afraid the man was going to directly contact her. But other people then appeared down the street and the man quickly drove away.

When the girl got to Southwestern Middle School she told an administrator who then called in the Sheriff’s Office. The girl provided deputies a very detailed description of the truck, which was later identified as belonging to 32-year-old Quick. He lived less than two miles from where the incident had occurred. Investigators showed the girl a photo lineup and she picked out Quick. An arrest warrant was signed Wednesday by Circuit Court Judge James R. Clayton, and Quick was arrested at his home at 1665 Salvadore Street without incident that evening. He was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.