Anna Maria
No reports.
Anna Maria is policed by MCSO.
Bradenton Beach
Aug. 16-17, Bayview Terrace Condos, 117 Seventh St. N., grand theft. A man reported he found his 2015 Ford pickup truck’s tailgate valued at $5,000 taken off his truck.
Aug. 18, Bridge Street Bazaar, 117 Bridge St., trespass. A woman was found sleeping. A Bradenton Beach officer witnessed the reporting party tell her she was no longer allowed on the property.
Aug. 21, Drift-In, 120 Bridge St., domestic battery. A bartender and others witnesses saw a man punch a woman in the stomach and grab her by the neck. A second man tried to break up the fight and the aggressor slammed the man’s head into the pavement. The aggressor was found on Church Street. The woman was intoxicated and told police she didn’t remember what happened. No one wanted to press charges. Police arrested the aggressor for battery.
Bradenton Beach is policed by BBPD.
Cortez
No reports.
Cortez is policed by MCSO.
Holmes Beach
Aug. 17, 6800 block of Palm Drive, theft. The owner of a 1996 Honda motorcycle valued at $1,000 reported it stolen from the backyard. The man noticed his inoperable, unregistered motorcycle missing when he went to work on it. He had last seen it two days earlier.
Aug. 19, Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, alcohol violation. A Holmes Beach police officer, using night-vision glasses, found a man and a woman having sex on the beach after the beach had closed. The officer noticed several open beer bottles around their blanket. They were issued an alcohol citation and a parking ticket for after-hours parking.
Aug. 19, 4200 block of Manatee Avenue, fraud. Randomly running tags, a Holmes Beach officer found an expired tag on a vehicle. The officer ticketed the driver of the vehicle for an altered tag, no proof of insurance and unlawfully possessing and driving with a suspended driver’s license.
Aug. 21, Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, alcohol violation. A man was cited for having a bottle of whiskey with him on the beach.
Aug. 23, Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, disorderly intoxication. Officers responded to a report that a man was throwing construction cones onto Gulf Drive. The man told police he threw the cones but that it didn’t hurt anyone
Holmes Beach is policed by the HBPD.
Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the BBPD, HBPD and MCSO.