- June 15, 2025
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3:29 p.m., 1500 block of Main Street
Disturbance: A motorist complainant flagged down an officer and informed the officer a person was recklessly operating an electric bicycle on Main Street. The complainant reported the rider punched his side mirror and he did not wish to be identified in a police report. The mirror was not damaged.
Officers located and attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the electric bicycle, however, the rider eluded pursuit by riding on sidewalks and going places the police cruiser vehicle could not access.
The rider was wearing a dark shirt and a full-face helmet, rendering any identification impossible.
6:11 p.m., Gulfstream Avenue and U.S. 41 roundabout
Disturbance: A group of about a dozen pro-Palestine protestors reported the driver of a silver Volvo stopped and began antagonizing them. A complainant noted the driver was yelling profanities, getting in protesters’ faces and stomping on their signs. The complainant recorded the incident on a phone.
The video showed the driver stopped in the roundabout and the male subject yelling at the protesters from his vehicle. The vehicle then pulled up onto the curb, at which point one protester struck the subject’s vehicle with the pole of a Palestine flag. The subject exited the vehicle in an aggressive manner and began yelling at the protesters.
The subject is seen at one point knocking a water bottle out of another protester’s hand, and can then be seen stepping on some signs lying on the ground. The subject then entered his vehicle and left the scene.
The holder of the water bottle said she does not wish to press charges for battery but requested documentation of the incident. It was also discovered that she was the protester who struck the car with the flagpole, which she said was accidental and occurred while making an evasive maneuver as the car pulled onto the curb.
The subject was unable to be identified as the vehicle was a rental car with no registered owner on record. The officer sent a request to the woman to retrieve her cell phone video, but it had not been received.
10:46 p.m., Bird Key Park
Property damage: The driver of a Lexus sedan called law enforcement to report that, while driving toward St. Armands over the Ringling Bridge, four young male subjects in a Mercedes threw tennis balls at his vehicle. In addition, he said one of them threw a Red Bull can, causing a dent in the driver’s side rear door. Other items struck his vehicle, he said, one causing a scratch on the fuel refill cover.
The victim stated he did not wish to pursue charges and only requested a case report to document the incident for insurance.
Additionally, dispatch received multiple other calls around the same time regarding the same vehicle and subjects throwing tennis balls, baseballs and other items at people and vehicles, one location at St. Armand’s Circle and the other at 1304 S. Orange Ave.
The youthful ne'er-do-wells in daddy's Mercedes neglected to consider the license plate is useful in identifying the owner of the vehicle, who was contacted by phone and advised of the activities with which his vehicle was involved. He offered to pay for the victim’s vehicle repairs. The victim was contacted was contacted and a message was left to advise him of the update. No further action was taken.
