White car throws objects from bridge near Barron Collier Bridge, Punta Gorda FL

Suspicious Activity

Reported: 11/13/2025 09:17 PM

Barron Collier Bridge, Punta Gorda, FL 33950

A caller reported that a white car stopped multiple times on the Barron Collier Bridge and threw large objects into the water, nearly hitting a person in a boat. Officers were sent to investigate and check license plate records. No suspects were named.

Audio|Source: Charlotte County Sheriff and Punta Gorda Police

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Transcript:

00:00

The in route to the Barron Collier Bridge must have found.

00:03

The caller said a white car stopped on the bridge multiple times and threw large objects off into the water.

00:09

Caller is in a boat and almost got hit by one of the objects.

00:12

Happened twice.

00:16

You probably stop here in route for the public assistance, Harkins to CSU.

00:23

The one is the caller or the person in the boat?

00:27

Sounds fun.

00:29

Was he able to advise what he was almost hit by?

00:35

Sima.

00:39

Is there anything floating or anything that we can see?

00:44

Echo 5, echo 1.

00:47

Yeah.

00:49

Yeah.

00:54

I'm trying to assist a white vehicle here, get the burn store.

00:59

I know.

01:05

I want you to clear stop.

01:07

That was the 19.

01:13

I can't go one card you didn't get a good look at it, so it was a large weighted object,

01:18

I'm sure.

01:21

There was.

01:26

So if the complainant was in the boat, how did they know what kind of vehicle was?

01:35

Go one, echo four, can you call the complainant back?

01:38

If he was in a boat, can you ask him how he knew what kind of vehicle was?

01:43

Sample.

01:45

Where's the land like I have been from?

01:50

Go.

01:55

Gregor 4, Claire stated that the car parked at the peak of the bridge, someone got out threw something, and then the car took off, then it happened another 15 minutes later.

02:06

What kind of car was it?

02:12

Caller described it as a white car.

02:14

They go 1, echo 5.

02:20

Echo 5.

02:22

You get done, you check license plate readers for the bridge,

02:26

see if you can, shouldn't be too much traffic right now for white vehicles rolling over the bridge.

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Barron Collier Bridge, Punta Gorda, FL 33950

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