BRADENTON — Bradenton Police officers arrested a 35-year-old man accused of burglarizing a home Tuesday and running from officers, according to Bradenton Police Deputy Chief J.J. Lewis.
At about 9:10 a.m. Tuesday, a woman reported seeing a man coming out of her neighbor’s house in the 300 block of 24th Street West with a bag in his hand.
She called police to report a possible burglary and gave officers a description of the man. Police set up a perimeter in the area and an officer spotted a man matching the description, later identified as Ronald Greenwald, in the 300 block of 25th Street West.
Lewis said Greenwald then ran and was found hiding behind a shed in a fenced in area by a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office dog.
Greenwald ran toward Manatee Avenue West before the dog took him down in the 2500 block of Manatee Avenue, Lewis said.
Lewis said Greenwald was then arrested and was held in the Manatee County jail on 23 charges, including burglary, theft, resisting arrest, and multiple violations of probation counts. His bail was set at $22,370.
Electronics were reported missing from the residence, he said.
Shots fired into home
MANATEE — The quiet of early morning Tuesday was pierced when someone shot into a home in the 2800 block of 22nd Street West.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, an unknown person or persons fired nine rounds of a 40 caliber gun or rifle into the home at about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday.
None of the five people in the home was injured.
The sheriff’s office was notified late in the day.
Ultralight breaks power lines
ELLENTON — An ultralight plane’s engine quit in flight and the small craft’s wheels tore out two power lines en route to a safe landing in a field, county emergency operations personnel said.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, which investigated the 4:55 p.m. accident, identified the pilot as Kurt Pfister, 46, and his passenger as Katie Kuss, 19.
Neither was injured, said Capt. Larry Linehauser of Manatee County Department of Public Safety.
The emergency landing in the 1500 block of Franklin Avenue damaged two Florida Power & Light lines, and FPL crews were at the scene repairing the damage at 6 p.m.
About 10 homes lost power in the area of 17th Street East and Ellenton-Gillette Road.
After the plane put down in a field off 17th Street East, a dirt road, the pilot had a truck tow away the plane even before sheriff’s deputies could get to it, a witness said.
There did not appear to be any damage on the ground — except to the power lines.
North River Fire District and Manatee County EMS responded to the scene, but there was no fire and no one hurt.
Fire station windows shot out
NORTH MANATEE — Vandals shattered four windows of a fire station under construction sometime between 4 p.m. Monday and 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report.
The windows are on the west side of the North River Fire District station under construction at 9805 Gateway Blvd., off Moccasin Wallow Road, just west of the Interstate 75 exit.
According to the report, the damage may have been caused by a BB or pellet gun, or an object on site may have been used.
Medicinal morphine stolen
MANATEE — A disabled veteran reported Tuesday a package of morphine was missing.
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report, the man told investigators the Veteran’s Administration sends him morphine via a package delivery service.
He was not at his house on 52nd Avenue Drive West around 2 p.m. Tuesday when the package arrived, so his renter signed for the it.
When the veteran got home the package was gone and he told the investigating deputy that his ex-girlfriend told him she stole the morphine to sell it.
The victim was not very cooperative and would not tell the investigator his ex-girlfriend’s name, according to the report.
The man only wanted to file a report with the sheriff’s office so he can get his prescription refilled, he said.
— Beth Burger and Carl Mario Nudi
Police briefs are compiled from reports from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Highway Patrol, the police from Bradenton, Palmetto and the island communities and fire departments in Manatee and Sarasota.
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