Category: Public Safety

Friday morning, 42-year-old James Albert Taylor, Jr. learned his fate when Circuit Judge Terrence R. Perkins rendered his sentence to life in prison for lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor.

Historic City News obtained records from the Florida Department of Health this week indicating that seven St Johns County restaurants passed their on-site inspection with ZERO violations found on their first attempt.

Historic City News learned that on Sunday, October 27, 2019, at approximately 7:40 p.m., Deputy Brandon Cologne responded to a report of a “road rage” incident that occurred at the intersection of SR-312 and US-1 South.

The arrest warrant served on 65-year-old Jill Agonis last week, suspected in the murder of her husband, 81-year-old William Keefe, gives the best look thus far into previous incomplete and misstated details in St Johns County Sheriff’s press releases, on facebook, and reported in the media.

Sheriff’s deputies reported to Historic City News that 81-year-old William Arthur Keefe died Friday October 18, of multiple gunshot wounds inside a home at 900 Oxford Drive within the Royal St. Augustine community.

Historic City News received word that in cooperation between the US Coast Guard, St Johns County Fire Rescue and the St Augustine Fire Department, a shrimper at sea, about a mile offshore, was able to be successfully airlifted from harm’s way.

With Halloween festivities ramping up and countless children planning to go trick-or-treating next week, our friends at the FDLE Office of Public Information, Gretl Plessinger, Jessica Cary and Jeremy Burns, remind Historic City News subscribers to stay safe in the coming days.

According to a report from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, received by Historic City News last night, a residence on Oxford Drive, off of Royal St Augustine Parkway, became a crime scene after law enforcement detectives found the remains of an elderly man and a seriously injured woman reortedly with “cut or stab wounds”.