Imagine it’s freezing Friday 1.30 a.m. and you hear your door bell ring to find a man standing outside without shirt or shoes, asking for a blanket.
Friday afternoon, the neighbors on Sawgrass Drive and adjoining streets in Lexington Park were exchanging phone numbers to be on guard and lookout for one another, suspecting drug-related activities in their neighborhood.
“He was standing without shirt and shoes and asking me for a blanket,” a neighbor who works for the navy said, requesting he remains anonymous.
The neighbor said he called the police for the first time, but the man was gone. After half an hour, the Caucasian man was again seen in the backyard of a neighbor.
“I again called the cops, who took him away. I am not sure if he was arrested,” he said, adding he saw the police come and put blankets on him. The complainant suspected the man might have been beaten up.
St. Mary’s Sheriff’s Patrol Division chief Lt. Daniel Alioto confirmed a man was transported from the neighborhood to his family members by Deputy Smith. “He did not commit any crime,” Alioto said. He said the police report does not mention anything about a neighbor’s complaint.
Alioto said the man’s name can not be released.