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Green laser struck helicopter over Sarasota apartment complex, Sarasota FL

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Weapons

Reported: 12/9/2025 03:50 PM

Saratoga Pl, Sarasota, FL 34238

Police received reports of a person shining a green laser at a police helicopter over an apartment complex near Saratoga Place in Sarasota. Ground units were dispatched to the location to investigate.

Audio|Heard on: Manatee County Sheriff

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01:47

Transcript:

00:00

831. Air 1 to smash.

00:03

Air 1 to smash. You send a unit that near Saratoga Place.

00:06

We're getting a laser strike.

00:07

The aircraft.

00:09

Near Saratoga place, 104.

00:16

Airwine dispatched the dressline D-5010 Central Service of the Parkway, stand by.

00:20

It's an apartment complex.

00:26

Three, Sam, 14, to Air One.

00:28

Are you talking about the apartment complex across the street from Turtle Rock?

00:35

Stand by. The plug-in is the exact address in a second.

00:41

It's going to be near Saratoga Place.

00:43

I'm not sure in the name of the apartment complex, but we're getting the subject shining a green laser in the helicopter.

01:01

Not yet, but if you can't clear us off the crash screen, if it's a post on a screen reference, we need to get it the response.

01:08

Deborah, dispatch any in the area? Yep, 251 of that.

01:12

Denver.

01:13

3214. I'm going to be pulling in.

01:16

Copy through 1714.

01:17

Yeah,

01:21

6-1 dispatch.

01:22

Clear from that traffic stop.

01:23

I'll be 51 to the laser as well.

01:26

That works.

01:27

Okay, 9-161.

01:32

At least zero central searcher parkway apartment one o'clock boulevard Pollard is reporting a laser strike on zero one

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Location mentioned:

Saratoga Pl, Sarasota, FL 34238

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