MANATEE — Two men armed with shotguns robbed a Palmetto family in a home invasion, leaving the residents with their wrists and ankles bound with duct tape and pillow cases over their heads, according to Manatee County Sheriff’s Office reports.
Sheriff’s report say at about 1:30 a.m. Friday, two armed men came up behind a 21-year-old resident of a home in the 3200 block of 48th Street East, Palmetto, and forced the victim from the driveway into his home.
The men ransacked the victim’s room, then moved to the victim’s parents’ room, where they forced the father, 48, to open a safe. The gunmen stole two guns out of the safe and the wallets of the father and 53-year-old mother also in the room. The gunmen then forced the father to give them keys to a Toyota Tacoma truck in the driveway, in which they fled.
Before leaving, the gunmen bound all three victims with duct tape on their wrists and ankles, and put pillow cases over their heads. The gunman also disabled the phones in the home during the robbery, the sheriff’s report said.
No arrests have been made.
Woman charged in kidnapping
BRADENTON — Police arrested a Bradenton woman on charges she lured a man into a kidnapping and robbery by her boyfriend, according to a Bradenton Police Department report.
Sarah E. Thomason, 26, was arrested Thursday on charges of robbery and kidnapping after the victim said he went with Thomason to a house to have sex.
The police report said when Thomason and the victim left the house in the 1100 block of 19th Avenue West, Thomason made a phone call and got into her car. The victim said he stayed outside the car to let her talk on the phone when two men attacked him and shoved him into the back seat of the car.
The men beat and robbed the victim before the woman drove the car to the 3600 block of Cortez Road, where the victim was dumped.
The victim later picked out Thomason’s picture out of a photo lineup provided by police as the woman who set him up.
No other arrests have been made in the case. Thomason was being held in the Manatee County jail on $50,000 bond.
California man charged in girl’s molestation
HOLMES BEACH — Holmes Beach police arrested a California man on a charge he molested a girl younger than 16, according to a police department report.
Officers arrested William E. Lindsay, 41, of San Francisco, on the beach Thursday after the girl reported he molested her. The girl’s age was not listed. It is not clear if Lindsay knew the victim.
Lindsay is accused of touching the girl inappropriately and attempting to kiss her. Lindsay told police he was drunk at the time of the incident. He was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation on a victim between the age of 12 and 16. Lindsay has since been released from the Manatee County jail on $10,000 bond.
— Robert Napper and Beth Burger
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