Public Safety

Bicycle patrol officers with the St Augustine Police Department passed through the Plaza Market this evening about 5:00 p.m. to clear a large group of plaza bums; some of whom were eating from backpacks, others drinking from unlabeled bottles and cups, another was sleeping against a pillar, and all were surrounded with their own trash bag full of clutter.

Russell Sampson Road, from St. Johns Parkway/County Road 2209 to just east of the State Road 9B construction site, will close Tuesday night at 9 p.m. and reopen Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. (September 26-27) and will close again Friday night at 9 p.m. through Monday at 6 a.m. (September 29-October 1). The closure, weather permitting, is for work related to State Road 9B construction.

Five intersections along three miles of SR-A1A, from PGA Tour Boulevard to Ponte Vedra Lakes Boulevard, will undergo traffic signal and crosswalk improvements that started this week.

Historic City News has learned that, due to significant erosion caused by Hurricane Irma, the Roscoe Boulevard bridge north of Landrum Lane will be closed for repairs beginning Thursday September 21.

Historic City News was updated on the traffic homicide involving a 2007 gray Pontiac Grand Prix, operated by 45-year-old female, Dannyn J. Leyendecker of Gainesville, traveling westbound on SR-16 last night in the right travel lane near Prime Outlets Boulevard.

On Saturday, September 16th at approximately 10:49 p.m., St. Augustine Beach Police Department Officer Tyler Thompson stopped a speeding vehicle driving west on SR-312. What he discovered led to the arrest of the driver on four felony and five misdemeanor drug-related charges.

Tuesday proved to be a deadly night on St Johns County roadways with two pedestrians being killed in a crash involving a vehicle at SR-16 and I-95, and another pedestrian struck and killed later on US-1 South.

Less than 8-hours after the body of a murder victim was discovered in his driveway in Palm Coast, at 12:30 p.m. Sheriff Rick Staly and deputies conducted a felony traffic stop on a vehicle at Cypress Point and Belle Terre Parkway that they say was operated by the man who committed the crime.