An arrest warrant was served in Putnam County yesterday against a Hastings man wanted for aggravated child abuse who admitted squeezing a four month-old infant “too hard” because he would not stop crying.
Historic City News has learned that the Honorable Judge Wendy Berger introduced St. Augustine Police Chief Loran Lueders as the keynote speaker at last night’s graduation ceremonies of the St. Johns County Adult Drug Court.
Historic City News local crime patrol reporters received word from Media Relations Officer, Kevin Kelshaw, that a 37 year-old registered sex offender was arrested last night — charged with sexual battery on a victim over the age of 12.
Public Information Officer Debra Johnson told reporters with Historic City News that deputies in Flagler County, as well as K-9 units, were called in to canvass the area of Pine Crest Lane in Palm Coast; responding to an attempted burglary that occurred early this morning.
Justin Mertis Barber, an unassuming 39 year-old man, weighing only 150 lbs. and standing 5’09”, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by a St. Johns County jury on September 15, 2006 for the first degree murder of his wife April Barber.
An autopsy of Thomas Frank Hoagland, who lived at 136 Island Cottage Way in St. Augustine, will be required before Flagler Beach Police will say what caused the death of the man whose body washed ashore Friday.
In a case of extremely good or extremely bad timing, depending on your point-of-view, Historic City News crime patrol reporters learned that a Ponte Vedra Beach man walked into a pawn shop to unload his stolen jewelry just at the time detectives were there in search of it.
