A grubby convicted child killer was nabbed by Florida cops after he was found hanging out with spring breakers at a popular Florida beach this week, police said.
Cops from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office discovered Anthony Grove nonchalantly boozing it up at Daytona Beach during a sweep cracking down on vacationers’ out-of-control behavior Saturday.
Grove, 45, was convicted of killing his infant son when he threw a coffee mug at his baby mama in February 2015 and hit the little boy in the head instead, according to ABC News 5.
He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, according to Ohio authorities.
At the time of his arrest in Florida last weekend, he was wanted for violating his parole.
Ohio warned the public that Grove should be considered “dangerous and possibly armed” and issued a warrant for his arrest on Oct. 29, 2025.
In police bodycam footage taken during his arrest, Volusia County Chief Deputy Brian Henderson initially appears puzzled as he asks Grove why he was wanted in Ohio.
“You made it sound like your kid – it was a car accident?” Henderson asks in disbelief, to which Grove’s response is unintelligible, but sparks an intense reaction from the officer.
“Go sit in the car,” Henderson says firmly, and shakes his head.
As another cop escorts him to a squad car, Grove – who was sporting a mohawk, silver chain and bright green sunglasses on the beach – can be heard saying, “It’s over, bro.”
Henderson was part of a “huge surge of deputies” sent to the beach in anticipation of yet another unruly spring break mob gathering when he and a sheriff happened upon Grove sitting next to another man who was swigging a whiskey bottle, the arrest affidavit shows.
The deputy said in the social media video that Grove played “it real cool” at the beginning – then admitted he was wanted in Ohio “from an incident where he killed his child,” Henderson explained.
The convicted killer denied he was on parole, however, and told cops he’d been in the area for days while looking for a job, according to the arrest affidavit, which says his Ohio parole agreement required him to obtain a “written travel permit” prior to crossing state lines.
Grove, who was hauled off to jail, was charged with failing to register as a convicted felon in the Sunshine State and two counts of drug possession, after cops allegedly found a THC weed pen inside his backpack.
He’s currently in custody pending extradition back to Ohio, the sheriff’s office said.
“This is why we said the little things matter – you enforce the small public nuisance crimes and here we are, we find a guy that’s sitting up on the seawall, drinking booze…This is the kind of people we don’t need on our beach, we don’t need in our community and I’m glad we could get him off the sand,” Henderson says in the clip.
