While on routine patrol at about 11:30 p.m. last night, Historic City News learned that St Augustine Police Officer Jeff Truncellito spotted two black male juveniles running across Orange Street from the area of Ann O’Malley’s on Orange Street.
Historic City News readers are asked to help locate a 38-year-old mother who was last seen dropping off a child at a friend’s home in Marsh Creek on Tuesday, July 16th — she has not been heard from by her family since that date.
Christine McGlade, vice president of manufacturing operations and site manager for the Northrop Grumman Corp “Center of Excellence” in St Augustine, reported to Historic City News that the US Navy will fill out an earlier contract, and award an additional contract to build five more E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft through June 2016.
Tuesday afternoon, Historic City News learned of an investigation by St Johns County detectives where a 27-year-old man has finally confessed to staging a burglary to a relative’s home in an effort to steal and pawn guns and other property.
Reporters for the free student-run newspaper at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville are getting more than an education in journalism — their editor-in-chief, Jacob Harn, says that they are also learning how little police care about the theft of hundreds of copies of their paper by a Florida Highway Patrolman.
Soon after 10:00 p.m. last night, St Augustine Police advised Historic City News local reporters that Officer Mike Kettman observed 33-year-old Jason Peter Slimak as he approached the Sunoco station on his motorcycle — by 10:47 p.m., Slimak was being booked into the county jail.
The voice of Florida’s retail stores and merchants announced to Historic City News that through their trade association, Florida Retail Federation, members are preparing for the 2013 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday.
Historic City News has been informed that the US Marshal Service has made an arrest in Monday evening’s armed robbery and shooting incident that occurred when a drug deal went wrong in St Johns County, according to Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw.
