- March 27, 2025
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11:46 a.m., 600 block of Jackson Way
Suspicious Person: An officer responded to a citizen’s report of a suspicious person who was possibly illegally trimming mangroves. Upon arrival at the scene, the officer spoke to the person in question but did not initially observe the man violating any mangrove trimming regulations. The man said he was only trimming them and intended to apply for permits to trim them any further, as he was planning on selling the property.
2:02 a.m., 700 block of Broadway Street
Suspicious Vehicle: While conducting a routine business check, a patrol officer noticed a vessel moored to a restaurant’s docks in a section that prohibited overnight mooring. The officer spoke with the owner of the vessel who claimed his rudder was broken and the manager said he could stay overnight until he could repair the rudder. There was no way for the officer to verify the man’s claim that he had permission, and no other criminal activity was observed. The officer did not have any service calls regarding the man’s presence, so he was allowed to stay for the time being.
9:41 p.m., 5300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive
Welfare Check: Dispatch sent an officer to conduct a welfare check after a citizen called to report his father arrived in town earlier that day, but the family had not heard from him. Officers arrived at the scene and spoke with the caller’s father. He said he accidentally left his phone on airplane mode and had been sleeping. Everything was fine, he said.
10:18 p.m., 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway
Trespassing: A store employee contacted emergency dispatch to report a man who refused to leave the property after being asked to do so. Upon arrival, the responding officer met with the store employee who said he was trying to close up the shop when he observed the man in question loitering in the back of the property. After the employee asked him to leave, the man moved to another side of the building where he remained. The employee said he wished to have the man trespassed from the property.
The officer then spoke to the loitering man who said he did not feel like he was trespassing because he moved to the back of the property. When asked for his identification, the man gave his out-of-state driver’s license and a Florida identification card that belonged to a different man in Clearwater, Florida. The man said he recently found that one.
While speaking with the man, he revealed he moved from Arizona and was heading south from Clearwater to somewhere “he could find alligators and make YouTube videos swimming with them,” the report states. The man refused any medical treatment and, after completing an official trespass warning, was sent on his way.
4:23 p.m., Bay Isles Parkway and Gulf of Mexico Drive
Fire: Longboat Key PD was sent to assist in a report of a blown transformer and wire hanging down near the mentioned intersection. At the time, the traffic light was not operational. The Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department secured the area with cones and Florida Power & Light was en route. Later, the light was restored and cycled normally, so the responding officer was able to leave the scene without further incident.
