Cops Corner: Sarasota 08.20.15

Aug. 15

CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK
8 p.m. — 800 block of Ben Franklin Drive
Suspicion: A man reported that, sometime during the night, an unknown subject threw a white substance on his vehicle in a hotel parking lot. The substance appeared to be dried-up milk and washed right off. No damage was done to the vehicle.

Aug. 17

HIT AND RUN
12:52 a.m. — 3000 block of Palmadelia Avenue
Property Damage: A man was inside his house when he heard a loud noise. He went outside to investigate the sound and saw a man running east. The man then noticed marks on the back of his father’s car, which came from a piece of concrete that had been thrown. The concrete hit the car’s back window, leaving a mark on the window and denting and scratching the back hatch.

SWEET TOOTH
2 p.m. — 1600 block of Eighth Street
Dispute: Two individuals at an apartment complex got in a dispute after one accused the other of taking candy from a vacant apartment. The accused man said he had been sleeping and had not removed anything from the apartment. The accuser said he was sleeping in the vacant apartment, and when he awoke, some peanut butter cups were missing. He decided to confront the other man because he saw candy wrappers on the ground near the stairs of the apartment complex. The accused man wanted a report made because he was tired of the accuser causing problems in the complex.

HOSED
2:37 p.m. — 2100 block of Harvard Street
Dispute: A woman reported that, after she returned from a weekend out of town, several children in the neighborhood told her other kids had been on her property while she was gone. The woman said one child, in particular, was a problem — he entered one of her cars just to sit in it, climbed a tree to walk on her roof and took a garden hose onto the roof to spray it on other children below. An officer invited the woman to discuss the matter with the child and his parent, who seemed to solve the problem among themselves.