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BOGO offered for camping on Turtle Beach Campground

BOGO offered for camping on Turtle Beach Campground

Sarasota, Florida -- Sarasota County's Turtle Beach Campground on Siesta Key is one of only a handful of spots in Florida where campers can pitch their tents or park their recreational vehicles (RVs) only a few short steps away from the Gulf of Mexico. 

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Citizens Law Enforcement Academy graduation

Citizens Law Enforcement Academy graduation

Sarasota, Florida -- The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office graduated another 25 people last night from the 39th class of the Citizens Law Enforcement Academy (CLEA).

CLEA is held one night a week for 10 weeks and gives citizens an inside look at Sheriff’s Office operations. The course includes a tour of the jail and courthouse, and activities such as a ride-along with patrol, conducting felony traffic stops and firearms training. There are also sessions in law enforcement procedures, criminal investigations, K-9, SWAT and Forensics, each taught by a subject matter expert.

Man brings child to buy drugs

Sarasota, Florida -- The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man who brought a six-year-old boy with him as he and a friend drove to a north Sarasota home to buy drugs.

Deputies say they conducted a traffic stop on a white pickup truck just after 10:00 p.m. Friday night after it left a home at Dixie Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., and ran a stop sign as it left the area.

When deputies approached the truck they found 32-year-old Fallon Miller, her passenger 48-year-old Gregory Wagner, and the child sitting between them.

Man wanted for stealing, pawning computer equipment

Sarasota, Florida -- Sarasota Police Department officers are looking for an Osprey man who is accused of stealing computer equipment from a girlfriend and selling it to a pawn store.

Police are looking for Christopher Schenks on charges of dealing in stolen property and fraud, false statement verifying ownership to a pawnbroker of $300 or more.

He is described as a white male, 6'1", 150 lbs, with black hair and hazel eyes. His last known address of 1519 Danforth Lane in Osprey.

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Free HIV testing offered on National HIV Testing Day

Free HIV testing offered on National HIV Testing Day

Sarasota, Florida -- Free HIV testing will be available to the public at locations in Sarasota and Charlotte counties as part of the 19th annual National HIV Testing Day observance during the week of June 22-28. 

The free, locally sponsored HIV testing and educational opportunities for late June are:

UPDATE: Search for missing swimmer in Sarasota

Sarasota, Florida -- The body of a 19-year-old has bee found early Sunday morning. 

Officials say the 19-year-old was swimming about 100 yards off shore. He went under after he was struck by two wakes from a passing boat and failed to surface. 

His body was found June 16, approximately 200 yards off South Lido Beach. 

10 News Taste Test Team: IHOP's Summer Signature Pancakes

With summer here, IHOP is rolling out it's new "Summer Signature Pancakes" to celebrate it's 55th anniversary, so we put our 10 News Taste Test Team up to trying their three new flapjacks features:

Banana Graham Nut Pancakes: Sliced fresh bananas grilled inside buttermilk pancakes layered with marshmallow cream, graham cracker crumbs and crushed honey-roasted pecans then topped with cinnamon cream cheese.