Police investigate suspicious SUV in Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda FL
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Suspicious ActivityAs discussed during the dispatch call, police responded to a report of a suspicious brown SUV parked in a driveway near Lido Drive in Punta Gorda. Officers searched the nearby area, including along Duncan and Car Lane, after reports of a person possibly hiding in the brush.
Audio|Heard on: Charlotte County Sheriff and Punta Gorda Police
Listen to dispatch call
03:46
Transcript:
00:00
Coming over to Echo Five, copy suspicious vehicle.
00:05
Echo Five.
00:10
You're going to near Lido Drive, across from West Marion Avenue.
00:13
Caller advises there is a brown SUV parked in the driveway.
00:16
They do not know who it belongs to.
00:22
Ten Four.
00:27
Hiding somewhere on the west side of Duncan, just north of Park Lane.
00:35
Copy.
00:41
417 Central.
00:47
417?
00:52
Do we have any K-9 available? I believe the suspect is walking back and forth on Duncan, but they may be hiding in the wood line on the west side when he spots us.
01:07
That's negative.
01:08
I don't believe they come until 12.
01:12
Copy.
01:18
416 Central, ten-four.
01:22
Careful, I think.
01:27
Hey, hey, hey.
01:29
Central driving ten, cut yourself.
01:34
Traffic ten.
01:37
John Sloop and Shoal Boulevard, John Sloop and Show Boulevard.
01:41
Beyond Florida's trailer tag in Lincoln Henry George X Ray Four Six, (number withheld), should come back to a tan in color enclosed trailer pulled by a white truck.
02:03
Central VS 63.
02:12
Last unit VS six or VS three?
02:18
VS three.
02:22
Go ahead.
02:24
On duty,
02:26
ID (number withheld),
02:28
Unit (number withheld),
02:31
She will be doing the bail run please.
02:38
Ten-four.
02:39
(number withheld).
02:47
417, where are you at?
02:51
I'm just west of my vehicle,
02:54
past that building,
02:55
checking the brush.
03:01
Believe I saw him about 30 seconds before I called it out, so he couldn't have gone far.
03:06
He's hiding in this brush area somewhere.
03:13
For 470.
03:20
Four 17. Yeah, I believe the last saw him at the intersection just east of the location he was walking north.
03:31
He's going to be near Car Lane.
03:34
Don't think someone in the brush.
03:37
Ten oh four.
03:43
Echo Five, Punta Gorda on scene near Lido Drive.
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Location mentioned:
Lido Dr, Punta Gorda, FL 33950
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