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Nightwatch

Nightwatch Blotter: Weekend Edition, Late Saturday and Sunday Night, Sarasota and Longboat Key

The weekend police log for Sarasota County, the City of Sarasota and Longboat Key: 20 logged calls from the last hours of Saturday night and all of Sunday night, block-level only, grouped by night.

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Shift: The weekend, Thursday, Oct. 22, 6 PM to Monday, Oct. 26, 3:26 AM ET. What the log covers: the county dispatch log keeps a rolling 24 hours, so this pull reaches back only to 3:27 AM Sunday. Thursday night, Friday night and most of Saturday night had already rolled off and are not shown here, and Sunday daytime calls are left out of this night blotter. Agencies: SCSO, SPD, LBKPD. Sources: Sarasota County 911 Dispatch Reporting.

Saturday night, last hours (early Sunday, Oct. 25)

Time Call type Location Agency Disposition
3:27 AM Impaired driver N Palm Avenue at Banana Court, Sarasota SPD Logged
3:32 AM Suspicious person Main Street at N Palm Avenue, Sarasota SPD Logged
3:37 AM Suspicious incident 2000 block of N Washington Boulevard, Sarasota SPD Logged
4:19 AM Assist other agency 8700 block of S Tamiami Trail, Sarasota County SCSO Logged

Sunday night (Oct. 25 to Oct. 26)

Time Call type Location Agency Disposition
6:11 PM Illegal parking 100 block of N Cattlemen Road, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
6:24 PM Suspicious incident Hatchett Creek Boulevard at Greenwood Lake Drive, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
6:56 PM Noise disturbance 23rd Street at Maple Avenue, Sarasota SPD Logged
7:08 PM Abandoned tow 2300 block of Bee Ridge Road, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
7:27 PM Officer public service 2300 block of E Venice Avenue, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
7:42 PM Trespassing 1100 block of Beneva Road, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
8:17 PM Assist other agency 1300 block of Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota SPD Logged
8:22 PM Patrol request 800 block of Longboat Club Road, Longboat Key LBKPD Logged
9:05 PM Traffic crash Dixie Avenue at Dr Martin Luther King Jr Way, Sarasota SPD Logged
9:38 PM Suspicious incident 1700 block of Stickney Point Road, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
9:38 PM Property damage 1900 block of Main Street, Sarasota SPD Logged
10:38 PM Suspicious vehicle N Washington Boulevard at 29th Street, Sarasota SPD Logged
11:18 PM Suspicious person 1100 block of US 41 Bypass S, Sarasota County SCSO Logged
12:27 AM Abandoned tow 1100 block of N Gulfstream Avenue, Sarasota SPD Logged
12:58 AM Noise disturbance 3200 block of Fruitville Road, Sarasota SPD Logged
2:41 AM Patrol request 500 block of Bay Isles Road, Longboat Key LBKPD Logged

Notes from the desk

Monday is the only shift that inherits a whole weekend, and the log hands it over the way a roommate hands over a fridge: a day and a half left, the rest already gone. The coffee this morning came from a diner mug I forgot to return in 2019, and it has outlasted three thermoses.

— Owen

Public records, shown as posted. Entries are call types, not findings. Locations are block level. Any arrest mentioned is an accusation, not a conviction. Call logs list calls and do not show outcomes.

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