The Brief
- A Sarasota judge faces a traffic charge after police said he sideswiped another car on Aug. 25 and drove away.
- Surveillance video and witness footage helped officers locate 12th Judicial Circuit Judge Thomas Krug.
- Court officials temporarily reassigned the judge from the felony criminal division to the family division.
SARASOTA, Fla. – Sarasota police cited 12th Judicial Circuit Judge Thomas Krug for careless driving and leaving the scene of a crash without exchanging information near Fruitville and Tuttle roads.
Traffic collision footage
What we know:
A woman told officers a blue BMW tried to merge, hit her car and drove off while a witness tried to flag down the vehicle.
“I saw him by my mirror. When I feel tack tack tack, I go, Oh my God,” said the woman seen in police body camera footage. …