Sarasota sheriff’s Skunk Ape incident report
The agency-written report records receipt of an anonymous letter and two photographs describing an encounter with a monkey or ape. Case number 2001-1004986.
What this record tells us
The report documents receipt of material. It does not establish the identity of the photographed animal or authenticate the anonymous account.
The report is dated January 2001 and lists an occurrence range in October 2000. This copy comes from a public secondary archive, not a new records request or a current sheriff’s website download.
- Author / issuing body
- Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office
- Source collection
- Public scan in DocumentCloud; retrieved through its public document service
- Checked
- November 1, 2026
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Agency-authored Florida public record. Florida’s public-record copyright rules generally require specific legislative authority for an agency to claim copyright. Only the official report page is hosted; the anonymous letter and privately supplied photographs are excluded.
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