POINCIANA, Fla. — Last Saturday morning, a conversation about property lines and yard debris took a dangerous turn on Reindeer Drive, prompting a police response and multiple felony charges against one resident.
Polk County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Poinciana neighborhood around 10:30 a.m. on January 10, 2026, following reports of an armed confrontation. The catalyst for the violence was reportedly a dispute over tree limbs.
According to the affidavit, a resident approached his neighbor, 27-year-old Jeltsin O’Neill Merced Zayas, to discuss debris from Merced Zayas’s trees falling into his yard. The discussion quickly escalated from a civil complaint into a heated argument…