Historic City News has learned that a former deputy sheriff in St Johns and Putnam counties, who now works at World Gym on US-1, has been arrested and charged with video voyeurism after detectives say he used a cell phone to photograph people without their knowledge.
After being found guilty on December 11 of all four-counts of lewd or lascivious sexual battery against a child, James Howard Scharfschwerdt will appear in court for sentencing on Tuesday February 5th — but this case is not over yet.
Monica Reifeiss reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
Historic City News learned that over four-dozen people gathered at the Willie Galimore Community Center on January 21st to commemorate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service and view the Andrew Young documentary, “Crossing in St Augustine”.
In a scheme that abused the trust of an elderly Ponte Vedra Beach man by his caregiver, St Johns County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Kelshaw informed local Historic City News reporters that an arrest has been made after detectives found that more than $100,000 in exploited property.
Sean Mulhall, Chairman of the St Johns County Republican Executive Committee, announced to local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that the February business meeting for the Republican Party has been rescheduled to avoid a conflict with Valentine’s Day.
The question on many Historic City News reader’s minds this morning, after Bill Leary’s short-notice resignation from the St Augustine City Commission yesterday afternoon, is, “what’s next?”
Cannabis with an estimated street value of $157,000 was confiscated from a 47-year-old St Johns County man by officers with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office and the Tri-County Narcotics Task Force when they executed a search warrant at his home this morning.
