Cops Corner: Longboat Key

July 4
Inflammatory actions
10:38 p.m. — 6300 block of GMD. Fire. Police tried to put out a small fire caused by fireworks with an extinguisher. Firefighters arrived and put out the fire. Police warned the man who admitted to setting off the fireworks that it’s illegal to do so on Longboat Key.

July 9
Not here to help
10:14 a.m. — 5200 block of GMD. Domestic Disturbance. A housekeeper’s teenage son and his girlfriend got into an argument because he wanted her to help him carry items up to an apartment, but she refused. They agreed to keep their voices down.

Scoping out the neighborhood
4:02 p.m. — Intersection of Bogey Lane and Bowsprit Lane. Suspicious Circumstance. A caller reported a suspicious man driving an older white vehicle in his neighborhood. When the caller confronted the driver, he said he was looking to buy a house in the area. Police were unable to locate the vehicle.

Partying and painting
9:05 p.m. — 600 block of Bayview Drive. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman who admitted to being intoxicated was painting a house somewhere on the Key with a man and passed out inside his truck. The man said he told her to sleep it off after she became intoxicated. They left the area.

cash flash
3:32 p.m. — 5400 block of GMD. Property Found. A man tried to get the attention of a driver who had a wallet on the trunk of his car by flashing his lights, but the driver didn’t notice, and the wallet flew off the trunk. The man turned in the wallet to the police station.

July 14
getting stoned
10:10 a.m. — 100 block of Broadway. Property Damage. A man parked his car at a beach access and took his bicycle off the back to go for a ride. When he returned, his rear car window was broken, but nothing was missing. The area nearby was being mowed, and police believe that a rock or stone from the mower could have broken the glass.

Call me, maybe
10:30 a.m. — 4600 block of GMD. Disturbance. A man admitted to taking down a beach canopy that another man put up on the beach because he worried it would interfere with turtle nesting. He didn’t know how to take it down, so he dragged it further down the beach and didn’t know that he broke it in the process. Police told him it was not his place to remove the property and told him to call authorities in the future.