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Sarasota News Leader July 12, 2013 Page 78 SUSPECT SOUGHT IN INDECENT EXPOSURE CASE ON LIDO The Sarasota Police Department is seeking he did not have on a shirt and his feet were a man who allegedly exposed himself to two bare, the report notes. juvenile girls on Sunday afternoon at a Lido A hotel manager said no video surveillance is Beach hotel. used on the property, the report adds, so offiThe department received a call about an inci- cers had no assistance in that respect in terms dent involving indecent exposure in the pres- of developing a better description. ence of children that occurred on Sunday, July 7, about 4:15 p.m. at the Limetree Beach Re- About 5:40 p.m., the Police Department resort, 1050 Benjamin Franklin Drive, Sarasota, ceived another call from the hotel, this time saying several people were chasing the susaccording to the report. pect east towards Ted Sperling Park, the reOfficers responded to the hotel lobby to meet port continues. "A perimeter was set up with with management in reference to the com- negative results," the report notes. At that plaint, the report says. There, the officers time, the suspect was described as wearing spoke to the grandmother of the two juvenile black swim trunks or long pants and carrying girls who were guests at the hotel. The grand- a dirty white shirt and flip-flops. Officers ran mother told the officers the girls were play- the tags for several vehicles in the lot at the ing ping pong in the game room when a man park, but they found no owner matching the approached them while he was masturbating suspect's description, the report says. and said he was going to "f--- them," according Anyone with information is encouraged to to the report. call the Sarasota Police Department Bureau of The victims described the suspect as a white Criminal Investigations at 954-7070, leave an male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5 feet anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers by call9 inches in height with a thin build and facial ing 366-TIPS (8477), go online at http://www. hair. The man was wearing a black baseball sarasotacrimestoppers.com/ or send a text cap and swim trunks with a flowery design in message by texting TIP109 plus a message to shades of black, blue and white, the girls said; CRIMES (274637). POLICE SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT GUN FOUND IN HOTEL TRASH The Sarasota Police Department is investigat- says. It was reported stolen in Manatee Couning circumstances regarding a loaded hand- ty on July 1, the report adds. gun that was found in a hotel garbage can on July 5, the department has reported. Anyone with information about the weapon Officers responded to the Regency Inn, 4200 is encouraged to call the Sarasota Police DeNorth Tamiami Trail, at approximately 10:44 partment Bureau of Criminal Investigations at p.m. that day in reference to a handgun one 954-7070, leave an anonymous tip with Crime of the maids had discovered in a garbage can located on one of the hallways in the hotel, a Stoppers by calling 366-TIPS (8477), go online news release says. at http://www.sarasotacrimestoppers.com/ or The handgun had a round in the chamber and send a text message by texting TIP109 with a a magazine with 16 other rounds, the report message to CRIMES (274637). %