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.
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.
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.
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.
A man involved in a two-vehicle crash off of Racetrack Road on July 16, died today as a result of his injuries, according to a report received by Historic City News from the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office this afternoon.
Assistant State Attorney Jacquelyn Roys informed Historic City News local reporters that the Spring Term Grand Jury has returned indictments against 24-year-old Justin Adam Boyles and 38-year-old Charles Danny Massey, for the kidnapping and first-degree murder of 54-year-old Edward Scott Mullener, Jr., whose last known address was on Hernandez Avenue in Palm Coast.
Historic City News learned today that a 19-year-old Duval County man became the victim in a “botched drug deal” that turned into an attempted armed robbery; and, ended with him being shot in the chest by the man he was meeting in the parking lot of a Julington Creek restaurant.
Three senior citizens, who are customers of Wells Fargo, NA in St Augustine, had their bank accounts illegally accessed; and, funds, reportedly totaling $6,000, were taken from their bank accounts, without their knowledge, according to a report received by Historic City News from Sheriff’s Financial Crimes Detective Henry Miller.
