Nearly 3,000 gifts were presented to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office in the first 15 days of December, a record for the law-enforcement agency’s ninth annual toy drive.
Citizens, businesses, staff of the sheriff’s department and others donated toys and gift cards to benefit the children enrolled in the 12th Judicial Circuit’s Guardian Ad Litem program, Sarasota Teen Court and the All-Star Children’s Foundation. The 2,950 gifts benefit children ranging from infancy to 18 years in Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties.
The merchandise was distributed last week…