Crime & Safety

Recognize Anyone In This Video? Yacht Break-in Surveillance Footage Released

The burglaries were reported Sunday at a marina on Anna Maria Island.

MANATEE COUNTY, FL -- The Manatee County Sheriff's Office released weekend surveillance video from a marina on Anna Maria Island where break-ins were logged at four yachts.

Four yachts were burglarized, and two weapons, a shotgun and a handgun, stolen, early Sunday while the vessels were in dry dock at the South Bay Boulevard marina, according to law enforcement.

Authorities believe five suspects in their late teens or early 20s were involved. The suspects were driving a full-size white van with windows only on the passenger side.

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Suspects reportedly broke into the vessels, which were out of the water, sometime between 2:24 a.m. and 2:54 a.m. at Galanti's Marina on the 900 block of South Bay, deputies said.

Anyone with information should call the MCSO at 941-747-3011 or Crime Stoppers at 866-634-TIPS.

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--Video and image via Manatee Co. Sheriff's Office

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