Island police blotter
Anna Maria
No reports.
Anna Maria is policed by the MCSO.
Bradenton Beach
Oct. 2, 2200 block of Avenue B, landlord/tenant dispute. After officers arrived on the scene at about 2:10 p.m., a female tenant explained her male landlord was verbally abusive toward her and her boyfriend. The landlord told police he didn’t want anyone in the unit because it was unsafe due to a fire earlier in the day. He also reported the boyfriend tried to attack him. The tenant told police she wanted her personal items. Police entered the unit and assisted the tenant in retrieving the items.
Oct 4, 100 block of Bridge Street, Baker Act. At about 8 p.m., police approached a woman sitting on the ground crying. She appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. She told police numerous times she was going to throw herself in front of a moving car due to a relationship breakup. Police reported she also threatened to kill herself by jumping off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. HPBD and MCSO were called into assist. She was transported to a treatment facility.
Oct. 4, 100 block of 22nd Street, North, noise complaint. Police were called twice to the Tropic Isle Inn at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. regarding loud music and yelling. On the first response, police told the guests about the city’s noise ordinance. The second time out, police gave the offenders numerous warnings to turn down the music and stop yelling, which were met with chants of obscenities. Officers remained in the area for more than an hour and the noise occasionally resurfaced. A police officer then observed a man yelling obscenities in the parking lot and arrested the 30-year-old from Texas for violating the noise ordinance.
Oct. 5, 100 block of Gulf Drive North, trespass warning. A police officer on routine patrol at 5:30 p.m. observed a woman yelling on the steps of Circle K. The woman appeared under the influence of alcohol and told police she had been drinking. Police issued a trespass warning and advised the consequences if she were to return.
Oct. 5, 200 block of Gulf Drive South, Marchman Act. Police were dispatched to a reported rape at about 11:30 p.m. The officer first observed a woman running on Gulf Drive. Upon initial contact, police report the woman appeared intoxicated. She told police she had been raped on the beach by a man with dark hair. The woman denied EMS treatment, but finally got into the patrol vehicle. The officer transported her to Blake Medical Center. At Blake, she had to be restrained to obtain a blood alcohol test. The test came back at .342 and she was admitted.
Oct. 9, 1700 Gulf Drive North, fraud/counterfeit. A complainant reported a person who identified himself as an owner of a Bradenton Beach Club unit for rent and told her to place about $500 on a reload credit card and then he would send her a contract. The woman became suspicious when she discovered the apartment had been rented to another family. Police advised her that it was “definitely a fraud.”
Bradenton Beach is policed by the BBPD.
Cortez
Sept. 16, 3600 block of 115th Street, prescription drugs missing. A man who allowed a friend to spend the night told a MCSO deputy the next day that his medications were missing from a black bag inside his suitcase. The host made breakfast for his overnight guest who, after eating, left to care of personal business. The MCSO reported the complainant was unable to provide investigators with a pharmacy printout for his prescription purchase.
Cortez is policed by the MCSO
Holmes Beach
No reports.
Holmes Beach is policed by the HBPD.
Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the Bradenton Beach Police Department, Holmes Beach Police Department and Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.