Category: Public Safety

Yesterday, St Johns County deputies believe a 58 year-old Jacksonville man chose to end his own life — he was found in a lounge chair on the beach, facing the Atlantic Ocean, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

After an exhaustive effort by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a “job well done” was recognized when a federal jury in Jacksonville found Lydia Cladek of St Augustine Beach “guilty” of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

St Johns County detectives are searching for 47 year-old Susan Raye Norris; who was last seen by friends and family members on January 26th, at which time she was driving a 2001 white Lexus RX300 sport utility vehicle.

An emotionally charged meeting of the Board of Governors of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind was attended by Historic City News Editor Michael Gold on Friday morning; along with staff and elected officials from the City of St Augustine and residents of two anxious neighborhoods that adjoin the campus.

Historic City News has learned additional details from St Augustine Police Department sources in yesterday’s arrest of 43 year-old Miguel Angel Gonell who remains in custody this afternoon in lieu of $100,000 bond.

Just after midnight this morning, St Augustine Police Officers booked Miguel Angel Gonell into the St Johns County Detention Facility — where he remains in custody in lieu of $100,000 bond.