- December 5, 2025
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10:45 p.m., 4800 block of North Tamiami Trail
Civil dispute: Law enforcement was asked to respond after a guest’s wife had fallen down a staircase and suffered a minor leg injury during a dispute with the motel over ineffective air conditioning.
The complainant stated the couple’s initial accommodation was in poor condition and that the air conditioning did not work. After complaining to the desk clerk, they were moved to lodging on the second floor and, although the climate control unit in the second room had been adjusted by the clerk, it remained uncomfortably hot. While returning to the front desk to lodge the complaint, the woman fell on the stairs.
The complainant asked the officer to experience the temperature in the room in order to verify his complaint, which was confirmed to be uncomfortably warm and, according the incident report, “was blowing anemically despite being set to cool.”
An officer spoke with the clerk who said her boss had instructed her to not move the couple into a third room and she was to issue only a refund for their room deposit. When asked by the officer if he would consider the partial refund and filing a claim with his credit card company for the balance, he said he would consider it. The reporting officer also advised there were other lodging opportunities in the area.
Officers stood by while the partial refund was issued and the parties separated in civil fashion.
6:55 p.m., 1400 block of Main Street
Disturbance: Because a woman was causing a disturbance in a downtown restaurant and bar, she was asked to leave by staff. Although she refused at first, the subject eventually left but did not pay her tab for one drink. Restaurant staff informed responding officers they did not wish to press charges for the theft, but did request she be issued a trespassing warning.
While officers were canvassing the area, one spoke with staff of a bar and grill on the 1500 block of Main Street, who said the same woman had lunch at their establishment and also walked out on her tab. They, too, wished to have the woman trespassed from the property.
Officers eventually located the subject at the corner of Main Street and Lemon Avenue where she was advised of the trespassing warnings issued for both establishments. Acknowledging the warnings, she then left westbound on foot.
2:17 a.m., 1500 block of Main Street
Impaired persons: Officers conducted a welfare check on two intoxicated individuals who had fallen onto the ground in front of a business not related to their condition. When on foot patrol in the area, officers observed a male lift a female over his shoulder before losing his balance and falling backward into a concrete wall.
Officers could see the woman had hit her head against the wall, initiating the welfare check. Assisting the pair into chairs, the man told officers he was the woman’s “baby daddy” and refused to permit them to administer aid. He was ordered twice to back away to allow the welfare check to continue as the woman fell in and out of consciousness. Observing a golf ball-sized knot on her head, EMS was called.
Baby daddy, meanwhile, became upset with officers for calling for emergency response to the scene and attempted to refuse medical intervention on her behalf. He then tried to lift baby mama, who was unable to stand on her own, out of the chair before officers intervened and ordered him again to back away.
Baby daddy was eventually restrained and EMS arrived, advising officers the woman required transport to the hospital for treatment of her injuries. She was placed under the Marchman Act as she was not of sound mind to make decisions on her own behalf as a result of her extreme intoxication.
What became of baby daddy from that point was not included in the incident report.
