Anna Maria
July 5, 200 block of Spring Avenue, burglary. A bicycle valued at $150 was stolen from a carport.
July 6, 200 block of Lakeview Drive, information. A man requested the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office check on the welfare of his father, who was found to be safe.
Anna Maria is policed by MCSO.
Bradenton Beach
July 5, city anchorage, 200 Bridge St., criminal mischief. A man reported his sailboat anchor line cut by a person who, according to a witness, paddled away in a dinghy. After the report, the man and witness signed waivers of prosecution.
July 6, BridgeWalk Resort, 100 Bridge St., theft. A man reported his bicycle, valued at $568, stolen from a bike cage. Bradenton Beach police viewed a video that showed two men cutting the lock and taking the bike.
July 8, Sports Lounge, 118 Bridge St., trespass. Flagged down by a security guard, a police officer assisted the guard with a trespass warning. The guard warned a man found sleeping on the property earlier in the day.
July 9, 120 Bridge St., trespass. Officers broke up a fight outside the Drift In between several women and a man. Inside the bar, the women reported they had refused the man’s advances. The argument continued outside. The manager issued the man a trespass warning.
July 10, Circle K, 103 Gulf Drive S., trespass. A manager trespassed a man found lying on a bench.
July 11, Circle K, 103 Gulf Drive S., trespass. Bradenton Beach police responded to a call about a disturbance. The officer witnessed the clerk issuing a trespass to the man who caused it.
Bradenton Beach is policed by BBPD.
Cortez
July 1, 11500 Cortez Road W., domestic disturbance. Manatee County sheriff’s deputies found two men arguing and determined no crime occurred.
July 2, 4000 block of 128th Street West, thefts. Deputies responded to assist with an abandoned vehicle and learned a safe inside a residence where the vehicle was abandoned was missing items valued between $300-$5,000. MCSO released the vehicle to a relative of its owner.
Cortez is policed by MCSO.
Holmes Beach
July 9, Publix Super Market, 3900 E. Bay Drive, trespassing. Holmes Beach police trespassed a woman at the manager’s request after officers determined she’d previously been warned for trespass.
July 10, 600 block of Dundee Lane, vehicle theft. A resident reported an acquaintance offered to put gas in her rental car but never returned with the car. The resident had rented the vehicle eight days earlier. Holmes Beach police left a message at the rental car company and attempted to locate the suspect and the vehicle without results.
July 10, 300 block of 63rd Street, court order. A woman whose ex-boyfriend was arrested two weeks earlier for battery reported that a private investigator attempted to bully her into signing a waiver of prosecution. She reported that the investigator told her if she didn’t sign, he would dig up information and make her life uncomfortable. He left a waiver form in her mailbox. Police attempted to contact the state attorney assigned to the battery case.
Holmes Beach is policed by the HBPD.
Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the BBPD, HBPD and MCSO.