Year: 2013

Gorish enters guilty plea on federal child porn charges

Acting US Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced to Historic City News today that 67-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sexual offender who once lived at 5412 Choctaw Street in St Augustine, has entered a guilty plea to transporting images and videos of child pornography from Florida to Canada.

Public Safety

Letter: Wendland gave Chamber three action-packed years

Letter: Wendland gave Chamber three action-packed years Victor Raymos, Chairman St Johns County Chamber of Commerce Dear Editor: Kirk Wendland has resigned his position as President of the St Johns County Chamber of Commerce to take a position with Stellar. Kirk has left the Chamber in excellent shape.

Editorials

Letter: Best days for Chamber lay ahead

Letter: Best days for Chamber lay ahead Kirk Wendland, President St. Johns County Chamber Dear Editor and Chamber members: This letter is to inform you that I have provided the Board of Directors with my letter of resignation, effective December 31, 2013.

Editorials

Man identified by victim charged in sexual assault

Historic City News crime desk reporters were notified that Monday, the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that a 33-year-old female victim was dropped off at Fire Station 14 on West King Street; she was reporting that she had been sexually assaulted.

Public Safety

Unregistered sexual predator discovered

When the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call at American Inn on SR-16 last night, the responding deputy found it odd that the victim of that disturbance, 28-year-old Kirby Donnell Miller Jr., did not want to press charges.

Public Safety

St Francis House director resigns

Historic City News has learned that the former St Augustine Police officer-turned-executive director of the only full time emergency shelter between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Renee Byers Morris, has resigned; according to a published article that appeared in The St Augustine Report.

Community

Sanchez and Morris will run again

With the St Johns County Commission elections still a year away, on October 11th, Historic City News reporters learned that 71-year-old Commissioner Ronald F. Sanchez told members of the Republican Club of Greater St Augustine that he will be running for re-election to the same seat, “one more time”.

Government