Category: Public Safety

Historic City News has learned from the office of United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill, that 67 year-old Lydia Cladek who at one time lived in an oceanfront mansion at 189 Sea Colony Parkway in St Augustine Beach, has been convicted by jury on all counts of wire, mail fraud and conspiracy.

Marine Rescue Lieutenant Jeremy Robshaw, reminded Historic City News that St Johns County Fire Rescue will hold its annual lifeguard tryouts for the 2012 beach season this weekend.

A 26 year-old man who was reported missing on January 12, by the South Daytona Beach Police Department, is believed to be the man whose body was recovered from Salt Run yesterday.

St Johns County Sheriff David Shoar told local Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that, somewhere along the line, the county has lost essential mental health treatment options that now place an increased, and perhaps misplaced, burden on law enforcement.

St Augustine police spokesman Mark Samson reported to Historic City News that investigators still do not know the identity of a man found floating in the water in Salt Run Sunday morning.

Traffic Homicide Investigator J.D. “Mac” McGinnis reported to Historic City News that he responded to a single-vehicle motorcycle crash that sent a motorcycle rider to the hospital with life threatening injuries.

The Florida Highway Patrol informed St Johns County reporters with Historic City News that two Jacksonville men were killed and two female passengers were sent to area hospitals with injuries sustained earlier during a one-car collision this morning on State Road A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach.

Deputy Troy Bickhart has been released to his family from Shands-Jacksonville Hospital after an attempt on his life at the hands of a 34 year-old St Augustine man who led law enforcement officers on a reckless, high-speed chase early this morning.