An unnamed suspect was found unconscious inside a padlocked pool maintenance shed after apparently breaking in to steal copper wiring. Responding officers discovered he had consumed an entire box of chlorine tablets and was wearing nothing but a deflated pool float as clothing.
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 22, 2026
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A routine python removal at the Sunset Palms trailer park turned catastrophic when the rescued 14-foot snake consumed Roberto Sanchez's emotional supp...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 22, 2026
The Sunny Shores Retirement Community's weekly bingo operation was revealed to be an elaborate money laundering scheme involving 12 retirees aged 68-8...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 22, 2026
Carl Henshaw, 46, was arrested after librarians discovered he had converted the men's restroom into a makeshift airboat engine repair station. Witness...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 22, 2026
Linda Kropotkin, 62, was caught using a network of strategically positioned raccoons to monitor her homeowners association's maintenance activities. W...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 22, 2026
Sunshine Shoals resident Gerald Pimpkin, 52, was arrested after releasing three Burmese pythons into the Palmetto Palms Estates community pool during ...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Local retiree Frank "Slippery" Henderson, 73, was caught staging elaborate alligator "accidents" to collect homeowners insurance payouts, using a trai...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Bradenton petty criminal Jimmy "Skates" Rodriguez accidentally stole back an airboat he had previously stolen from a local marina, creating a bizarre ...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Sunshine Shoals Mayor Rick Swampwater unveiled a controversial plan to transform the decrepit Sunshine Plaza strip mall into a "free-range exotic anim...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Deborah Kline, 59, was arrested for selling "premium Everglades real estate" that turned out to be underwater sections of a mosquito-infested bog to u...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Herbert Kleinschmidt, president of the Pelican Pointe Homeowners Association, has begun personally removing any lawn decorations he deems "aesthetical...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
A 14-foot Burmese python was discovered calmly drawing geometric shapes on a classroom whiteboard at Sunshine Shoals Elementary before being captured ...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Dave Henderson has transformed his quarter-acre lot into an unauthorized alligator sanctuary, claiming he's performing "critical reptile conservation ...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Local sheriff's deputies dismantled a sophisticated berry theft operation run by three retired landscapers who had been systematically stealing premiu...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026
Local eccentric Harold Simmons successfully constructed a seaworthy airboat using nothing more than six plastic lawn chairs, industrial-strength duct ...
Sunshine Shoals Gazette
Feb 21, 2026