Dave Bristow Quotations

We're going to have to wait for more tests. We were hoping this would tell us something.

We're hoping that somebody out there knows something and will give it up. This is definitely something where the public could be of help.

We are going to look at any allegations made against this teacher.

We are hopeful we'll have an arrest. We think we will.

We're looking into one incident, but they have not been charged.

We were confident that we were going to catch up with him. We had an ID. It's certainly a relief anytime you've got a guy that's robbed that many banks. He's going to keep doing it, and eventually he's going to get caught.

There are tons of examples in which we can't get a hold of anyone when we want to find a relative. It can't but help to have a backup contact.

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

She has been known to sneak out in the past.

Obviously, we don't condone this type of behavior. We will say that all three deputies came forward when we approached them with this information, which we received in an anonymous letter. From the get-go, we believe that they were truthful with us, and certainly that helps their cases, because it's hard to prove these things.

From time to time we do these investigations and try to battle prostitution on 14th Street and in some of these lingerie shops, but the problem is, there's unfortunately a demand for it. It's an ongoing problem.

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

He tried to start a fire in the bathroom. We think he killed her and then tried to start the place on fire.

We're obviously working it hard. But we were hoping to get some more information from people who may have seen something. So far, that hasn't happened.

He's been fairly cooperative in telling us things.

The only thing that didn't come through was the one that got away - but we'll get him.

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

That was a good bust. We were very fortunate that someone saw this.

We don't think he was in there very long.

We have some strong leads that make us confident that this is the same person. We're not 100 percent positive, but they have strong similarities and the same motives.

We have 1,100 employees here so you're going to have some problems. We've always said that if we have a problem we'll investigate it and get to the bottom of it, and that's what we did here.

We don't know what really spurred the argument. We don't know what triggered that, and what caused it to get so violent.

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

We don't know if it is yet, but we're looking into it.

We don't know how (the two shootings) are related.

This time he was unresponsive and was transported to Manatee Memorial Hospital.

When you get a situation like that, there's a chance you'll have additional crashes.

The public has the right to be informed. But there's certain things that we're obviously not going to release because it could jeopardize the investigation.

There could be additional arrests. It's still an ongoing investigation.

We have a bunch of leads, but we could use more.

We are very confident in this case and have extremely strong evidence that this occurred.

We think it (the homicide) happened (Thursday) afternoon, some time leading up to time we got there.

The sheriff and I have both been here almost 20 years. In this time, we've had occasional cases like this, but the last couple months have been extremely unusual.

That's where the key players are - the family, the friends. We're not going to get tunnel vision in this investigation.

You would think the last victim of a burglary would be a marked unit. It shows audacity to do something like this. Audacity or stupidity, I'm not sure which.

This is something we've battled for years. They are starting to pop up again. Let's not kid ourselves. A lot of them are fronts for prostitution.

It's a borderline civil case. I can't say where it's going to go but, on the surface, there does seem to be some things going on that may not be legal.

Ford fought and fought and fought but he passed away a little before 4 a.m..

It just followed out like a script. We were a little surprised it came together like it did and that they showed up.

It was a good arrest. It's not easy to catch these types of criminals because they are usually in and out of an area pretty quickly.

The rest is at our own discretion. We're going to withhold information to protect the investigation, such as where a shooting victim was shot.

If you take into consideration that our county is approaching 300,000 in population, we're doing well.

He's not saying anything, or offering any explanation. The victim usually provides us with something.

You'd be amazed at how much money a person will go through when they're an addict.

The juvenile was seen by one of the children on the bus.