Even if you're leaving your home for just a few minutes, arm your home security system.
Fortunately, Sarasota's Municipal Auditorium has a video surveillance system which captured four suspects casing out the venue on Friday. The four returned on Saturday, making off with approx. one hundred and fifty coins, most made of gold.
Please contact the Sarasota police department if you have any information that could help solve this theft.
Detectives with the Sarasota Police Department are asking the public for assistance in identifying a man seen on surveillance video burglarizing two vehicles at about 4 a.m. on August 25, 2014 in the 3200 block of Old Oak Drive in Sarasota. On surveillance video, the suspect is seen walking up to one vehicle, opens the unlocked door, looks through various areas of the front compartment area and then exits.Anyone with information is encouraged to call Detective Kim Laster at 941-364-7327 or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by calling 941-366-TIPS (8477) or online at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com
And another video surveillance system catches a man stealing a woman's purse in a bar on Siesta Key.
Theft at approx. 1:35 time mark
Our camera system recorded two brothers stealing a propeller. Afterward they were recorded selling it at a local recycling business which led to their arrest.
As more and more security cameras are being installed in homes & businesses, video evidence like this is recorded of criminals caught in the act of the crime.
Video provided by the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office shows people accused of being members of a retail crime ring stealing from a North Port Walmart.
added January 7, 2014 Burglar caught on Sarasota security camera system identified and arrested. A second suspect is still at large.
SARASOTA, FL- Sarasota County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested one of two suspects they say broke into a business on Lockwood Ridge Road Monday night but fled without stealing any merchandise.
According to the sheriff's office, the burglary happened at SRQ Fishing Oasis/Amendment II Armory in the 3500 block of N. Lockwood Ridge Road around 9:21 p.m. Monday. The business owner, watching a remote surveillance system, saw two men at the front of the business and one attempting to pry open the door with a crowbar, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies reviewed the footage, which showed one of the suspects was carrying a small revolver. A man wearing identical clothing and a black brace on his right ankle was located a short distance away.
27-year-old Ryan Pete of Sarasota, who has a history of drug and weapons charges, has been charged with Armed Burglary.
Anyone with information about the second suspect is asked to call Criminal Investigations at 941.861.4900, Crime Stoppers at 941.366.TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com
Sarasota police department are looking for two suspects caught on a video surveillance system burglarizing Roots Couture Salon on S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota.
Anyone with information can call Detective Darrell Nixon at 954-7078, or leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by calling 366-8477, online at www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com, or via text message by sending TIP109 plus a message to 274637.
Last week, Furrow said she came home about 6 p.m. to find the bottom pane of her kitchen window missing and the light in her bedroom closet on.
Clockwise from upper left: Samantha Smith, 19, Brandy Kinney, 19, Alyssa Conrad, 23, and Caroline Catarzi, 20. The four women are accused of committing at least 20 burglaries. (Photos provided by Sarasota County Sheriff's Office)
SARASOTA COUNTY - Four young women trying to fund their drug habits banded together to form a burglary ring, the sheriff’s office says.
They hit more than 20 homes across the Sarasota area over the past two weeks, playing different roles as they collected jewelry, cash, an iPad and even collectible coins.
The women would knock on doors of homes and break in, while one of them acted as lookout and another drove the get-away car, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
On Thursday, deputies searching for the suspects stopped a silver Kia carrying three of the women as they were driving near Lockwood Ridge and University Parkway. Inside the car was “a plethora” of stolen jewelry, according to an arrest report.
Samantha Smith, 19, was driving with Brandy Kinney, 19, Alyssa Conrad, 23, as her passengers, the report states.
The three women told deputies that Caroline Catarzi, 20, was their ringleader, and that they had been breaking into homes around Southgate to pay for their oxycodone addictions.
A detective had already interviewed Catarzi, who was booked into the county jail in August after she stole her father’s flat screen plasma television and pawned it, according to an arrest report. Catarzi denied any involvement in the burglaries.
Susan Furrow was one of many people in Southgate whose homes had been targeted.
Martinez is charged with being a principal to a burglary. The 2013 silver Ford Explorer was rented in Miami to another man who is being sought for questioning.
UPDATE
A sheriff's helicopter is still circling neighborhoods near the Lake Sarasota subdivision east of Interstate 75 as they search for a burglary suspect, who is apparently on foot.
The search began about 11 a.m. today and is continuing into the evening.
SARASOTA COUNTY — Sheriff's deputies arrested a man in connection with a burglary attempt Thursday morning in the Lake Sarasota subdivision.
Deputies responded to a report of a burglary in progress just before 11 a.m. in the 7100 block of Lago Way. A stranger had knocked on the victim's door, and when no one answered, the stranger walked around to the back of the home and tried to break in, deputies say.
The suspect ran away as deputies arrived. Two nearby schools, Lakeview Elementary and Oak Park School, were placed on "limited" lockdown while deputies searched with helicopters and dogs.
The burglar was not found, but deputies arrested a man they believe was an accomplice.
Sitting in a car in the burglary victim's driveway, deputies found Yulier Martinez, 21, of Hialeah, who claimed he was in the area handing out landscaping fliers, according to the sheriff's office.
MANATEE -- There were gunshots but no one was injured in a home invasionin Palmetto late Wednesday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
About 9:05 p.m., three armed men approached two women as they were entering their residence in the 700 block of 14th Street East, Palmetto. They shoved the victims inside and demanded money, according to a news release.
Once inside, a male victim emerged from inside the residence, and the suspects began to shoot at him. He dropped to the ground but was not hit by the gunfire, according to the report.
The suspects then fled in a vehicle parked outside, according to the sheriff's office.
No one was injured.
Anyone with information about a crime can call the sheriff's office at 941-747-3011 or Crime Stoppers at 866-634-TIPS.
Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/12/08/3710258/gunshots-but-no-injuries-in-palmetto.html#ixzz1fxFw3QAe