BEACH BEAT

Holmes Beach

7/25, 9:01 p.m., trespassing, 4000 Gulf Drive. An officer responded to a call about an irate woman at Manatee Beach. A staff person asked that the woman, who was argumentative when police arrived, be trespassed from the property. The officer trespassed the woman, who left the scene on a bicycle.

7/28, 12:25 a.m., trespassing, 3602 East Bay Drive. An officer responded to a shoplifting in progress. When the officer arrived, the suspect had left the store and was being confronted outside of Alvin’s Island. The items were recovered and the suspect was trespassed from the property.

7/31, 11:48 a.m., aggravated battery, resisting arrest, 113 36th St. Officers responded to the 3800 block of Gulf Drive on the beach in response to a battery committed by an unidentified female. A fisherman said he was approached by an irate woman who demanded he stop fishing and, when he refused, swung a paddleboard paddle at him, injuring his hand. The officers located the suspect and, when told she would be under arrest, she became evasive and irritated. The suspect was arrested and transported to the police department.

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