- April 25, 2024
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MESSAGE FOR MOTHER
5:58 p.m. — 5400 block of GMD
Found Property: A woman found a cellphone with a purple cover on the beach and turned it into the police station. She told police she sent a text to the contact labeled “Mother,” advising the woman she was turning the phone over to police.
NOT WELCOME HERE
1:30 a.m. — 4400 block of GMD
Public Service: A man told police that a friend of the family assumed he could spend the night at his house, but he didn’t want him there. The man was sleeping in a rental car in the driveway. Police woke the man up and told him he needed to drive elsewhere to sleep.
High and not-so-dry
5:14 p.m. — 100 block of GMD
Rescue: Police found an intoxicated man lying at the edge of the shoreline. A woman approached the scene and vouched for the man, promising to drive him home.
SEND HIM TRUCKING
8:08 a.m. — 500 block of Wedge Lane
Disturbance: A man reported that he and an ex-employee got into a verbal spat over the former employee’s work ethic two days earlier. The ex-employee threatened to damage the man’s truck. The man filed the report in case the ex-employee follows through on the threat.
CUT OFF THE RACK
12:10 p.m. — 5400 block of GMD
Burglary: A man came to the police station to report the theft of his men’s blue-and-white Trek bicycle, valued at $1,300, from his carport. Someone cut a metal cable to steal the bike from a wooden rack.
REVENGE RAMPAGE
8:22 p.m. — 500 block of Broadway
Vandalism: A man told police that he broke up with his live-in girlfriend a week ago and is working to remove her from the lease. A neighbor called him to report she was in the home removing items and placing them in a white van while he was at work. Police found the apartment in disarray with paintings cut, broken CDs and his clothes cut up all over the floor. Police took photos of the apartment and worked to find the van through the license-plate camera recognition system. The man reported the theft of an Oregon Ducks football helmet, a Steve Young autographed football, a Mongoose mountain bicycle and a Huffy beach cruiser bicycle.
HELLO, NEIGHBOR
10:59 p.m. — 3500 block of Bayou Circle
Suspicious Circumstance: A man told police he feels boaters who anchored in the canal behind his neighbor’s home were preparing to burglarize the property. The boating couple told police they were just fishing in the canal and didn’t appreciate the neighbor yelling profanities at them. Police told the neighbor the canal is a public waterway, not private property.
MONEY BAGS
10:46 a.m. — 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway
Found Property: A grocery store manager turned in a money clip with a New Jersey driver’s license with it. Police found a local address for the man, but he had already left for the season, so they attempted to contact him up at his northern home.
Debug Dilemma
10:50 a.m. — 600 block of Buttonwood Drive
Fraud: A woman told police her televisions started to have problems and a cable technician passed along the number of a recommended company to “debug her system” because the cable company believed she was hacked. She paid a company $899 to debug her system and then wondered if she had been the victim of fraud. A bank representative said the company is legitimate, and her problem was solved, so she no longer thinks she was ripped off.
TOWN CAR TROUBLE
1:32 p.m. — 3400 block of GMD
Suspicious Circumstance: A man told police a brown Lincoln Town Car has pulled into his driveway between 3 and 5 a.m. for the past several nights. He saw a man wearing an orange shirt and others exit the vehicle the last time. A walking patrol didn’t uncover anything suspicious.
BIRD SAVE
7:22 p.m. — 2100 block of GMD
Animal Rescue: Police responded to a report of an injured bird and discovered a red-headed woodpecker on the east side of Gulf of Mexico Drive near Bay Isles Parkway. The officer placed the bird in a box provided by a concerned resident and met a wildlife rescue employee in Bradenton Beach, who took in the bird for observation.
