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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 take off her clothes. Both men raped her, she told the officers. After Mendiola-Martinez left, the victim tried to flee, she said, but Serrano came outside — wearing no clothes on the lower half of his body. She jumped in her car and locked the doors, but he began hitting the driver's side window with a gun and pointing the gun at her, according to the report. At that point, friends she had managed to text earlier showed up, the report adds. She told officers that the friends also saw Serrano with a weapon, the report says. Page 77 Serrano went back into his home after the other people arrived, the report continues, and the friends drove her to a convenience store, where she called the Police Department. Officers worked with SWAT members to make contact with Serrano inside his home, the news release adds. "Serrano was arrested without incident," the release notes. During the subsequent investigation, weapons were located inside Serrano's home, the news release says. Mendiola-Martinez was arrested at his home off Fruitville Road, the release adds. TEEN CHARGED WITH VEHICLE AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARIES The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested 16-year-old Kyle Cartwright in connection with several residential and vehicle burglaries, most of which occurred earlier this week, the office announced on Jan. 8. Deputies were looking for Cartwright near Locklear Park in Sarasota on the night of Jan. 7 because he was the subject of an arrest warrant for violating probation and was a suspect in a recent theft," a news release says. "When they approached him Cartwright fled, jumped into a creek and took off his clothes and backpack in an attempt to get away," the release adds. Deputies took him into custody as he climbed out of the water, the release notes; they found a laptop, jewelry and several watches among his belongings. They linked the items to a crime on Hillview Street, and Cartwright admitted to a number of other burglaries and to selling stolen items, including guns, the release says. Kyle Cartwright/Contributed photo Cartwright, who has had four felony burglary arrests since 2011, is charged with three counts of Armed Burglary, two counts of Burglary, one count of Grand Theft and one count of Resisting Arrest without Violence.