Cops Corner: Sarasota 7.6.17

July 2

ROUGH APPROACH
12:34 a.m. — 900 block of John Ringling Causeway
Dispute: A teenager reported that he became involved in a dispute after he and his friends attempted to talk to a girl. When he approached the girl, several people confronted the teenager. He speculated that the people were possibly related to the girl and became upset when she was approached. As a result, the teenager fled the area. An officer transported the teenager back to his home and informed his father about the situation.

THE SOUND & THE FURY
7 a.m. — 300 block of Caruso Place
Noise complaint: A resident complained that his neighbor was running an amplified sound speaker that was unusually loud for a Sunday morning. He told an officer that the noise was keeping his infant son from sleeping, and that the neighbor has done this before and usually has a hostile attitude when the police confront him. The officer found the neighbor talking through the speaker to nobody in particular. He asked the neighbor to turn the speaker down to a more bearable level. The neighbor, still talking through the speaker, asked if he had committed a crime. When the officer told him no, he began to question why the baseball team was allowed to speak through speakers in the neighborhood and said nobody complains when roosters in the area crow in the morning. The neighbor eventually stopped using the speaker.

BATHROOM BREAK
9 a.m. — 900 block of Siesta Drive
Property damage: Some time overnight, someone overturned a portable toilet at a public park. There were no witnesses to the incident. An officer attempted to contact the portable toilet company, but was put on hold for 15 minutes. The cost of the damages are unknown.

BEACH BASH
2:45 p.m. — 300 block of Benjamin Franklin Drive
Dispute: An officer responded to a fight while working at an event on the beach. A man reported that another man accused him of stealing a speaker and tackled him. The man who made the report said the speaker was his. The other man admitted to tackling the man because he thought the man was walking away with his friend’s speaker, and said the incident was the result of a misunderstanding. Both men made peace and did not want to make formal statements. The officer asked the other man to leave the beach, which he did with no issues.