Police did not buy a tar-smeared man’s story that he was visiting family on the roof of a convenience store at 3 a.m. Tuesday. 
 
 Joshue Holoman, 30, covered in roofing tar from trying to break into the Sunoco at 645 N. Atlantic Ave. through an air conditioning shaft, was charged with two counts of attempted burglary of an unoccupied structure, possession of burglary tools and criminal mischief, an arrest report shows. 
 
 Holoman of Orlando was also seen earlier on the roof of another business on Grandview Avenue, the comedy club Grandview Live, police said. 
 
 Officers were called to the closed business by a witness who heard a strange noises like whistling, snorting, a torch sound and rattling fence coming from the back of the business, police said. 
 
 When police arrived, they saw Holoman on the roof, covered in tar. He first said he was visiting family and then changed his story, saying he was an air conditioning technician trying to fix the units because he could hear them making noise from the ground, the report states. 
 
 Holoman then said he was on the roof sleeping and rubbed roofing tar on his body so he could not be seen from the ground. 
 
 Police found Holoman with a makeshift prying tool used on the Sunoco’s air conditioning shaft. 
 
 While being taken to jail, Holoman became violent and broke a $500 metal panel inside the prisoner transport vehicle, police said. He remained jailed on $4,000 bail Wednesday. 

 × Police: Man covers himself in tar to hide from officers 
 
 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Authorities say a man who was planning to break into a gas station had a strange strategy of avoiding capture. 
 
 Police in Daytona Beach say 30-year-old Joshue Holoman was found covered in tar around 3 a.m. Tuesday on the roof of the business. 
 
 He originally tried to convince officers he was an appliance repairman working on the building’s air conditioning unit. 
 
 He later said that he had been sleeping on the roof and smeared tar on himself so he wouldn’t be seen. 
 
 When police found a pry tool with Holoman, they figured he was a would-be burglar. 
 
 He was arrested on attempted burglary, criminal mischief and possession of burglary tools.
– There are all kinds of innocent reasons why a guy might find himself on the rooftop of a convenience store at 3am, Joshue Holoman tried to explain to suspicious police officers earlier this week. The tar-covered Florida man, who had allegedly pried open the Sunoco's air-conditioning shaft, at first said he was trying to visit family members, although there were no members of the Holoman clan to be found on the roof of the Daytona Beach store, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Cops say the 30-year-old then claimed that he was an air-conditioning repairman who had heard the units making noise and gone up to fix them. Finally, he tried to persuade officers that he was just sleeping on the roof and had smeared tar on himself so he wouldn't be seen. Police weren't buying any of those excuses: Holoman was arrested and charged with attempted burglary, possession of burglary tools, and criminal mischief, reports KFOR.