Longboat man calls cops on suspected cheating wife

Saturday, Dec. 6

Astray from the flock

12:35 a.m., 4711 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Citizen assist: A man asleep in a hotel lobby who was “possibly impaired” prompted a call to police on a late weekend night. Hotel staff told dispatchers the man was unable to communicate his address for an Uber. Police arrived at the resort and found the man, who told the officer he had been separated from his wedding party group and that he did not need medical assistance. While the officer was trying to help the man order an Uber, his flock came and collected him. The case was closed

Monday, Dec. 8

You break it, you fix it

10:18 a.m., Marbury Lane

Civil disturbance: Police were called to a residence on the north end of the island by a woman who said a worker backed into one of her landscaping poles and attempted to leave the scene. The woman told dispatch that she was able to stop the vehicle but could not communicate with the driver because of a language barrier. When police arrived, the officer called the worker’s supervisor and it was decided between the four parties that the man who damaged the landscaping pole would repair it, which would settle the matter. Police closed the case and left without striking any landscaping poles.

Wednesday, Dec. 10

Residential dumpster diver

3:15 p.m., Longboat Club Road

Suspicious incident: Police were called to a Longboat neighborhood after a complainant said they saw an older woman who was driving a green Toyota going through their trash. When police responded, they saw that dumpsters were out on the road for pickup on garbage day. The officer knocked on the door to the residence and there was no response and no signs of a green Toyota or dumpster divers. Police closed the case.

Thursday, Dec. 11

40% of marriages end in…

7:29 p.m., Sutton Place

Family disturbance: A husband called police as he sat in his car, armed with a firearm, outside a house his wife was in on a Thursday evening. When police arrived on scene, the man told the officer that inside the house was his wife along with her alleged boyfriend. The man told police he called because he wanted to make a report that noted his wife was having an affair. According to the aggrieved man, he had called his wife earlier and he noticed her tone “seemed strange,” she was laughing and she would not say where she was. Police asked the man whether his wife was in duress or if she was there voluntarily. The man said she was there on her own free will as he had followed her there. The officer told the man that police could not confirm nor deny allegations of an affair, advising him to either settle the issue in court or through an investigator. The officer attempted to contact the man’s wife via cell phone to no avail and closed the case.