Anna Maria
Oct. 20, 100 block of Bay Boulevard South, larceny. A complainant reported to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office the theft of a rental bicycle from a residence. A deputy assigned a case number and filed an incident report.
Oct. 24, 100 block of Willow Avenue, 1:43 a.m., noise. A deputy responded to a noise complaint and issued a citation for violation of the city’s noise ordinance.
The MCSO polices Anna Maria.
Bradenton Beach
Oct. 20, 200 block of Bridge Street, trespass. A Bradenton Beach police officer observed a man at the Historic Bridge Street Pier with an active trespass from the pier. When the officer reminded the man he was still trespassed from the premises, the man refused to leave. The subject was arrested and transported to the BBPD and then to the Manatee County jail in Palmetto.
The BBPD polices Bradenton Beach.
Cortez
No new reports.
The MCSO polices Cortez.
Holmes Beach
Oct. 17, 200 block of 77th Street, criminal mischief. A female complainant called the Holmes Beach Police Department and said someone keyed her rental car. An officer responded to the scene and found a vulgarity etched into a door. He estimated damages of $1,000. The officer attempted to speak to some renters who had an issue with the complainant the night before but they did not answer the door. The complainant told police she was working with the rental company to obtain security footage.
Oct. 18, 4000 block of Gulf Drive, construction accident. A Holmes Beach police officer responded to reports of an accident involving a downed utility pole and found a truck with its bed raised tangled in utility wires. One pole had fallen and another one had snapped in half. The driver was told to stay in his vehicle while utilities were called to shut down service to the lines. After the lines were cleared, the man was removed from the vehicle. He said the vehicle had gotten stuck and he didn’t see the wires when he raised the truck bed to remove its load. The vehicle was removed and the officer provided a case number to the manager.
Oct. 23, Manatee Public Beach, 4000 Gulf Drive, Baker Act. An officer saw a vehicle in the beach parking lot after closing, around 10 p.m. Due to previous encounters with its registered owner, the officer called for backup. They found the female owner unresponsive in the driver’s seat and observed “several boxes of medication” in the vehicle. The officers entered the vehicle and checked the woman’s pulse, but she remained unresponsive. EMS arrived to transport her to HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton under a Baker Act order.
Oct. 24, LaPensee Plumbing, 401 Manatee Ave., suspicious circumstance. An officer responded to reports of a possible theft the night before and spoke with the complainant, a manager who showed security footage of a man taking two pool heaters and a condenser from next to a dumpster outside the property without permission. The manager said other items had gone missing. The officer issued a be-on-the-lookout order for the man but advised that a “reasonable” person would perceive items left next to a dumpster as trash and free to take. The next day, an employee told police another employee was terminated and found with texts on his work phone that “appeared to be deals of drugs … as well as LaPensee property/products being sold.”
HBPD polices Holmes Beach.
Streetlife is based on incident reports and narratives from the BBPD, HBPD and MCSO.