Category: Public Safety

In accordance with Florida State Statute 775.21, Historic City News is providing this public notification that the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been given information that a person judged to be a sexual predator has moved to another location in St. Johns County.

The Broward county sheriff said 17 people are dead in the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the city of Parkland, northwest of Fort Lauderdale. He said the shooter is in custody, according to a 10:00 p.m. press update received by Historic City News.

The roadway reopened to traffic at the entrance to the Coquina Crossing subdivision on SR-207 at about 10:00 p.m. last night; after troopers concluded a three-hour investigation of the serious crash occurring when a vehicle attempted to make a left turn into on-coming traffic.

Historic City News has learned that at about 6:00 p.m. Tuesday evening, two federal and one county law enforcement officer exercised lethal force while attempting to capture a single, middle-aged, 190-lb former lawyer, who was unarmed, but had an arrest warrant issued against him in the District of New Hampshire.

A fugitive, wanted in connection with charges of aggravated sexual battery against a child under the age of 15, has been shot and killed at the door to his motel room on SR-16 at I-95 by members of a joint local-federal law enforcement task force attempting to execute an arrest warrant.

When one observant Historic City News reader was waiting downtown to pick his teenage son up from work, the driver of a burgundy red Ford Mustang coupe sped up to a Flagler-College-aged female on the east-sidewalk of Cordova Street, threw open the passenger door, and began yelling for her to get into the car.

Under Florida law, a sexual offender or predator who does not have a physical home with an address is considered “transient”, subjecting the offender to more restrictive registration requirements than those with physical home addresses. Among other requirements, such offenders must report to the sheriff’s office every 30 days instead of only twice per year…

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The following partial listing of cases were investigated by officers with the St Augustine Police Department and reported to local Historic City News reporters by Public Information Officer Cecilia M. Aiple today.