PORT ORANGE, Fla. — Two people were stabbed and two people were arrested before Port Orange police arrived on scene and made announcements to come out, according to an arrest report.
The couple also called 911 numerous times to report that they were being harassed by police, the arrest report states.
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Port Orange police said they were responding to the home around 10 p.m. after two men reported being stabbed by the man who lives there.
Officers said they knocked on the door and used a PA system on a patrol call to ask the couple to exit the home on Oates Avenue for an hour and a half.
According to the police report, two men said they’d gone out to dinner with Joshua Raye, 37, and Maria Soroka, 37, and Soroka offered the men to stay the night at their home in the “funny room.”
After hanging out in the living room, one of the men told police he decided to go to bed. After that, he told police, Raye came into the room with a kitchen knife and told him he needed to leave.
Before being able to exit the home, the men told police they both suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds.
Police said they obtained a search warrant and forced their way into the home around 5 a.m. where Rayes and Soroka were both arrested. Before then, police said both Soroka and Rayes had called 911 to report that police were harassing them.
When investigators forced their way into the home, they said Soroka was holding a phone. During her last phone call to 911 at 5:13 a.m., police said Soroka was telling dispatchers that officers had just broken into her home.
Police said Raye is facing charges of two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and two counts of resisting an officer without violence and misuse of 911.
Officers said Soroka is facing two counts of resisting an officer without violence and two counts of misuse of 911.
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