Drug trafficking charges follow execution of search warrant at local residence
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office SWAT and Special Investigations Unit executed a search warrant at 4675 Sixth Avenue last Wednesday May 22 at about 8:00 a.m.
Category: Public Safety
Smitty’s Internet Café closed by police
On May 23, 2019 at approximately 9:30 a.m., Historic City News was notified that the St. Augustine Police Investigations Unit served a search warrant at Smitty’s Internet Cafe, located at 311 Anastasia Boulevard.
Lame duck sheriff to issue letter grades to elected county commissioners
St Johns County Sheriff David B Shoar, who does not intend to seek reelection, promises to “tell folks what they need to hear, not what they want to hear; regardless of any political expediency considerations”.
Putnam sheriff asks for our readers help to solve a local murder
Historic City News received a broadcast from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office asking for assistance in identifying the assailant of a 38-year-old St Johns County man who resided in a condominium at World Golf Village on January 31, 2019.
Letter: St Augustine High School not safe for daughter
Letter: St Augustine High School not safe for daughter Ron HermanSt Augustine, FL Dear Historic City News editor: My daughter attends St Augustine High School and, although Friday is the last day of class, I fear for her safe return after the summer break. The sheriff is not watching the youth resource deputies. The principals…
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Ponte Vedra Beach teen killed while jogging on A1A
Troopers told Historic City News that 16-year-old Zander Laurin of Ponte Vedra Beach was jogging in the southbound bicycle lane of SR-A1A near Mickler’s Landing at 5:55 a.m. when he was hit by a 2012 Toyota Tundra that drifted out of its lane; striking Laurin from behind.
Convicted felon arrested and now faces nine new weapons charges
Just before midnight last night, May 18 at 11:45 p.m., 43-year-old James Robert Hancock, who reported his residence as 3091 Usina Road in St Augustine, was arrested and taken into custody by St Johns County sheriff’s deputies. He is being held without bond as of Sunday morning; facing 9-counts of possession of a weapon. Each…
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Arrest of a 16-year-old girl charged with threats to kill her teacher
Based on the warrant signed on May 14, 2019, by the Honorable Circuit Judge Christopher A. France, Flagler County deputies took the student into custody and arrested her. She was processed at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Daytona Beach.