Year: 2012

A residential structure fire reported to E-9-1-1 operators at 3:11 a.m. this morning, sent St Johns County Fire Rescue teams to the 1800 block of Shore Drive; where first responders reported heavy smoke in the home.

Brandon Meredith Hardy, the 21-year-old man who came to St Augustine from Valdosta thinking he was going to have sex with a 12-year-old child, was found guilty yesterday of using the Internet in an attempt to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.

A former long-time Sheriff’s Office employee and once lieutenant assigned to the St Johns County Detention Facility finds himself detained today after violation of his probation on charges of aggravated stalking last year, according to a report received by Historic City News from Sheriff’s spokesman, Chuck Mulligan.

In court for a pre-trial hearing Tuesday, Historic City News reporters learned that 27 year-old Alan Everett Squire who resided at 70 Washington Street in St Augustine, pled guilty then was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted robbery of the T-11 convenience store located at 52 San Marco Avenue.