Burrows released on total bond of $5,650
An 18-year-old Sarasota man has been charged with burglary of an unoccupied vehicle — a felony — along with misdemeanor counts of loitering and prowling, and resisting an officer without violence, following an incident in north Sarasota, the Sarasota Police Department (SPD) has announced.
Jaquez Allen Burrows, of 2406 N. Orange Ave., was arrested on May 30 on Alta Vista Street in Sarasota and ordered held under total bond of $5,650, his Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office jail booking record notes. He was released on bond on June 1, that record says.
The 12th Judicial Court document related to the setting of bond stipulated that if Burrows were released on that bond, he was not to return to the scene of the May 30 incident, and he would have to “surrender all firearms” to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
Burrows’ arraignment is scheduled for June 26, an SPD news release notes.
Just after 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, Sarasota Police officers arrived at a South Osprey Avenue home after receiving a report about a suspicious person who had threatened an individual with a gun, Burrows’ Probable Cause Affidavit says. The suspect was wearing a ski mask, the affidavit adds; he left the scene on a black scooter.
When Burrows was arrested, the release continues, the officers who searched him found two, 13-round Glock handgun magazines in his pocket, but no firearm. “The magazines did not have any ammunition,” the release adds.
“Officers also recovered a large amount of cash” from one of Burrows’ pockets, the release notes.
About 7:45 p.m. on May 30, after Burrows’ arrest, the release says, “[O]fficers conducted a follow-up canvass of the area and found a firearm in a holster behind a home near the scene of the incident.” The firearm was identified as a “Glock Model 23 Gen 4,” which is a .40-caliber firearm, the release points out. Officers also found 13 rounds of .40-caliber ammunition in the magazine in the firearm, the release adds. “The firearm was collected as evidence and submitted for DNA analysis,” it notes.
Burrows’ Probable Cause Affidavit says that while officers were searching for him, based on the victim’s description, a lieutenant “saw a suspect matching the description going southbound on Alta Vista [in the area of South Orange Avenue] on a scooter.” Therefore, officers “set up a perimeter” around the 1700 block of Alta Vista Street, the affidavit continues.
Further, officers called on the assistance of the Sheriff’s Office’s Air One helicopter, and a Sarasota Police officer deployed the agency’s drone, the affidavit notes.
“Air One spotted Burrows near Pomelo [Avenue],” the release says, so officers pursued him. When members of the Community Action Team (CAT) located Burrows and attempted to detain him, it adds — including commanding him to halt, the affidavit indicates — Burrows “resisted and ran.”
After seeing the suspect run from the officers, a Police Department sergeant was able to set up another perimeter in the area, the affidavit continues. That sergeant and “several other SPD officers” were waiting at 1731 Alta Vista St. “when Burrows jumped over a fence in front of [the sergeant, who] gave Burrows verbal commands,” ordering him to the ground. Burrows then was “arrested without further incident,” the affidavit says.
Officers found the two 13-round Glock magazines in his right pocket, “along with socks,” the affidavit notes.
After Burrows was read his Miranda rights, the affidavit continues, he said “he did not wish to talk [with a detective].”
Police personnel also contacted the victim, Jacob Klasinski, to ask whether he would be willing to come to the scene to determine whether Burrows was the person who had threatened him, the affidavit says. Klasinski was willing to do so, it adds, and he was able to positively identify Burrows.
Details of the incident
While he was on the scene on Alta Vista Street, Klasinski explained to officers that he had heard noises outside his house “that sounded like an animal rummaging around,” the affidavit says. When he opened his front door, it continues, he saw a Black man standing next to the driver’s side of his brother’s car; that door was “wide open.”
He yelled, “Hey” at the man, he told the officers, adding that he did not recognize the person, the affidavit says. He “was going to rush Burrows … but decided against it because he saw what he thought was a holster in the front” of Burrows’ waistband, it adds.
“Burrows had his hands down near the holster,” the affidavit points out, reporting Klasinski’s statement.
“Burrows headed back to his scooter,” which, in this situation, was an electric vehicle on which a person stands, the affidavit notes. It was located at the end of his driveway, the affidavit says.
When Klasinski tried to get a better look at Burrows, the affidavit indicates, it appeared to him that Burrows “was fidgeting with what [Klasinski] thought was a gun, so he did not get any closer.” Afterward, Klasinski went back into his home to call 911 and to tell his brother about the car’s door being open.
“[Klasinski] advised that he was never threatened with a gun,” the affidavit points out.
Officers drove to Klasinski’s home to speak with his brother, Jonathan, the affidavit continues. Jonathan told them that when he went outside, he found the door of his vehicle “wide open,” as his brother had described it. However, Jonathan Klasinski “advised that nothing had been taken,” to his knowledge, so he did not wish to pursue criminal charges.
In explaining the decision to file charges against Burrows, the affidavit notes, the officer who signed it wrote that Burrows was wearing a mask to conceal his identity when he arrived at the Klasinski house. Further, he fled at the sight of law enforcement officers “and ran through backyards in the early morning hours,” the affidavit says.
Moreover, it notes, “Burrows was in a neighborhood (2500 [block] of S. Osprey [Avenue] at a time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals, and under circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or immediate concern for the safety of person … or property in the vicinity.”
A Sarasota News Leader check of the 12th Judicial Circuit Court records maintained by Sarasota County Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Comptroller Karen Rushing and her staff found only two other cases involving Burrows. Each resulted in one count of Possession or Misrepresentation to Purchase Nicotine Products by Persons Under 21. The first case dated to September 2025; the second incident occurred on March 11.