BRADENTON – The trial of a Holmes Beach man accused of burglarizing a Holmes Beach house and beating the female owner has been set for April 15, 2019, in circuit court.
Mark L. Snyder, 56, faces charges of burglary, assault or battery, aggravated battery (with great bodily harm – victim 65 years of age or older) and second-degree grand theft in the June 28 crime.
A trial date has been set for Mark Snyder, accused of attacking a Holmes beach woman and burglarizing her home. – File Photo | Sun
Snyder was arrested July 3 after a neighbor tipped police that he appeared to match a surveillance video’s description of the suspect, and he drove a vehicle that also matched the suspect’s vehicle.
According to the Holmes Beach Police report, the victim returned home to find a man in her bedroom in the process of stealing her property. She told police she screamed, and he hit her a number of times, causing her to fall and bleed. He then fled the residence carrying bags of stolen jewelry.
The victim, who does not want to be identified, was taken to Blake Hospital with a broken bone in her face and lacerations to her head.
Snyder is still incarcerated after his bail was revoked.
HOLMES BEACH – Mark Lee Snyder, 55, is back in custody on an additional $50,000 bond after Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him on Monday, July 9 for a second burglary.
In addition to his original charges, he now faces a first-degree felony charge of armed burglary of a gun in Anna Maria, according to Manatee County Sheriff’s Office records. Police discovered the gun, and what they believe is stolen jewelry, in a storage unit he leased.
Police first arrested Snyder on July 3 for attacking a 71-year-old Holmes Beach woman during the burglary of her home. They charged him with burglary with assault or battery, a first-degree felony; aggravated battery of a person 65 or older, a first-degree felony; and grand theft of between $300 and $5,000, a third-degree felony, according to Manatee County Sheriff’s Office records.
Snyder
He was released July 4 on a $41,500 bond.
According to Holmes Beach police, the victim surprised the burglar when she returned to her 75th Street home between 1:40 p.m. and 2 p.m. after lunching with friends, finding him in her bedroom, where he attacked her, striking her several times and causing her to fall before he fled with three to four bags of stolen property, including jewelry.
Surveillance video images posted on social media of a man carrying several bags to his gray Nissan Maxima from the victim’s home led to someone recognizing the suspect’s car, Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer said.
When police interviewed Snyder at his residence, he consented to a search of the car, where police found a tan, large-brimmed hat and a dust mask that the victim described her attacker as wearing.
In his confession to the burglary, Snyder told police that he “panicked and struck the victim while he fled,” saw her “on the floor with a lot of blood,” and wasn’t sure if she was alive, according to the police report.
The victim was transported to Blake Medical Center with a laceration to the back of her head that required multiple staples to close, and at least one broken bone in the face, according to the report.
Snyder also said he threw the bags in dumpsters and in the river in Bradenton because they had blood on them, according to the report.
However, when Holmes Beach police and the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office searched a storage unit rented by Snyder, they found stolen jewelry and firearms; an investigation continues to identify the owners of the property.
