Anna Maria
No new reports.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office polices Anna Maria.
Bradenton Beach
Feb. 22, 103 Gulf Drive S., Circle K, trespass. A Manatee County sheriff’s deputy responded to a call concerning a man causing a disturbance in front of the store. The caller gave dispatchers a description of the man. Officers located a person who matched the description and advised him he was trespassed from the premises. An incident report was filed.
The Bradenton Beach Police Department polices Bradenton Beach.
Cortez
No new reports.
The MCSO polices Cortez.
Holmes Beach
Feb. 21, 6400 block of Flotilla Drive, Marchman Act. Two officers from the Holmes Beach Police Department responded to reports of an overdose and arrived after the crews from Manatee County Emergency Medical Services and West Manatee Fire Rescue, which were treating the man. The officers spoke with a witness who said the man snorted an unknown pill. The man declined medical intervention but the officers placed him in custody under the Marchman Act and transported him to HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton.
Feb. 20, Walgreens, 3200 E. Bay Drive, shoplifting. Two HBPD officers responded to reports of shoplifting and spoke with the manager, who said a person attempted to leave without paying for a bottle of liquor but handed it back when confronted. The manager said another man stole several bottles of liquor a couple of days earlier and both incidents involved the same vehicle. The manager wanted to press charges if the suspects were apprehended and provided store video.
Feb. 24, Waterline Villas & Marina, 5325 Marina Drive, suspicious circumstance. An officer saw a motorist leave the parking lot at a high rate of speed. He followed and used radar to clock the motorist, who was driving 50 mph in a 25-mph zone. The officer attempted a traffic stop but the motorist fled on Manatee Avenue toward Bradenton. The officer collected the vehicle’s information and later found it abandoned in a Bradenton parking lot. The officer called the Bradenton Police Department to respond. The officer later called the vehicle owner, a female, who said it must have been stolen and that she wanted to press charges. The BPD took over the investigation since the vehicle was stolen out of Bradenton.
Feb. 20, 200 block of 71st Street, grand theft. The HBPD received a call from a property owner that a pool pump was missing. An officer investigated and found the pump’s power wires and PVC piping had been severed and the pump was missing. The officer provided the property owner with a victim’s rights pamphlet and searched the area for security cameras to no avail.
Feb. 25, Kingfish Boat Ramp, 752 Manatee Ave. W., Baker Act. An officer responded to reports that a woman called a suicide hotline and was threatening to kill herself. The officer found a woman in the driver’s seat of a vehicle. The officer knocked on the window but the woman did not respond. The officer called EMS, at which point the woman got up, ran and fell. The officer placed the woman in the back of his vehicle until EMS arrived and transported her to HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton for treatment.
HBPD polices Holmes Beach.
Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the BBPD, HBPD and MCSO.