A Bradenton man pleaded no contest to charges levied against him after grabbing a woman and leading police on a chase across the Cortez Bridge in August.
Douglas Bloomer, 48, was adjudicated guilty Nov. 10 on three counts — battery, domestic injunction violation and opposing an officer without violence — and was sentenced to the 70 days already served in Manatee County jail following his arrest.
Bloomer fled Aug. 6 after an officer responded to a call about a man trying to pull a former girlfriend into a pickup truck outside the Bridge Tender Inn, 135 Bridge St., Bradenton Beach.
BBPD and Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, including K-9 “Boss,” found Bloomer hiding underwater in a canal behind a Cortez RV park.
Twelfth Circuit Judge Robert Farrance ordered Bloomer not to contact the victim and to pay $800 in costs, including $201 into a domestic trust fund and $151 into a rape crisis fund.
