- December 5, 2025
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2:05 a.m. 1400 block of Main Street
Battery: Responding to a report of a fight, an officer was told by a man that another man approached him and told him he was going to “get his girlfriend to stomp his girl.” He said the man subsequently “squared up” with him and then punched him in the face, then ripped his shirt, causing his chain necklace to be torn off as well.
He then explained he was only trying to speak with the aggressor and ask why his girlfriend was destined to be beaten up by his own significant other.
Interviewing the threatened woman, the officer was told she was making a social media video when she was approached by the aggressor couple when her boyfriend intervened. As the men engaged in fisticuffs, the women began to fight as well, both of them tumbling to the floor.
After separating, the female subject got into her white Nissan and backed into the female victim before speeding off, but not before she captured the car’s license plate number. That car was later stopped by a Sarasota County deputy on South Tuttle Avenue and, upon questioning the woman, suggested she was trying to break up the fight when she engaged with the woman who had been threatened by her boyfriend. She said she then attempted to leave when the vehicle was “swarmed” by other people and unintentionally hit someone while attempting to flee the scene.
Video footage retrieved from the bar suggested mutual combat, and no further action was taken.
1:12 p.m., 700 block of John Ringling Boulevard
Stolen vehicle: A complainant said he paid a vehicle transport company to ship a car to his son’s home in Boston. The vehicle was picked up on July 3 and the transport was scheduled to take only several days. After the delivery date came and went, the vehicle had not been delivered.
Communicating with the transport company, the most information the complainant was provided was that there was an issue with the transport truck. An officer contacted the transport company and was told by an employee the transport truck was stopped for an inspection in North Carolina and failed to produce proper permits. The owner of the truck was not the driver, and only the owner could drive it back to Florida. Once it was returned, the car was transferred to another transport company, but that truck broke down near the North Carolina-Virginia state line and was currently being repaired.
The officer was provided with the new driver’s phone number, who confirmed the transport truck was being repaired and the vehicle would be delivered by July 30 at the latest. The complainant was advised to contact the officer if the vehicle was not delivered by Aug. 1.
7:50 p.m., 5000 block of North Tamiami Trail
Disturbance: Having called for law enforcement, a woman sitting in the motel lobby area advised she no longer needed assistance. Still, the officer asked what had occurred and was informed she was in her room with her boyfriend, who became upset about her “constantly watching TikTok,” according to the incident report. To that, she told him that if her viewing social media videos was so upsetting, she could leave and terminate the relationship.
At that, she began packing her belongings despite her boyfriend’s attempts to convince her not to leave, grabbing her wrists — which she described as not in an aggressive manner — in the process. She added she did not want to press charges.
Unconvinced that the man was not sincere in his surrender to her TikTok addiction, the woman intends to leave for her friend’s house in Bradenton. During the investigation, the officer noted the man “running through the back of the hotel.” The officer learned through the investigation the couple was relocating from New York to Florida and had yet to establish residency.
