Category: Public Safety

Historic City News was informed Friday that a man who had a domestic violence protection order against him from a previous relationship, has been arrested today; charged with murder in the death of his wife, 25-year-old Brandi Celenza.

Asian reporter Merrill Paul Roland informed the local Historic City News Bureau that he has observed yet another violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. chapter 126 § 12101 et seq, and Section §316.1955 F.S., §316.1955(2) F.S., and §316.1959 F.S. this time involving illegal blocking and use of designated handicapped parking…

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St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board vice chairman Deltra Lynette Long, who resides at 65 Osceola Street in St Augustine, was placed under federal indictment Friday; charged with one-count of theft of government funds and one-count of false claims against the government.

Two teens have been identified, the oldest of the two arrested, in connection with a fight that erupted last week between a group of several teens and a store employee at a KFC located on US-1 South.

Charges are pending in a fatal car-vs-pedestrian crash that occurred Friday night, according to a report filed by the Florida Highway Patrol this morning.

Suicide or homicide? That question still lingers for Michelle O’Connell’s family and friends nearly eight years after she was shot inside her boyfriend’s St. Augustine home and died. Historic City News readers will be watching “20/20” when it airs on Friday, April 13 (10:01-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC.

Historic City News received word Wednesday that activist Ed Slavin has asked St Augustine city officials to delay approval of the permit to demolish the last remaining portion of the 1920’s era Echo House building until Ron Rawls and St Pauls AME Church can show that they have filed an advanced notice required by federal…

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A twice-prior convicted felon was arrested this week, and he remains in custody at the St Johns County Detention Facility in lieu of over $1.5 million bail.  Anthony Terrell Williams, Jr who resided at 135 Gilbert Street, was arrested on warrants charging him with three-counts of attempted murder and one-count of possession of a firearm…

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