Category: Public Safety

Police searching for woman of diminished capacity

Air support and a bloodhound from the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office are assisting in the search for a disabled 25-year-old woman whose mother reported her missing from their home this morning. Historic City News readers are being asked to report any information concerning her whereabouts.

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Police beat: HistoricCity 9-1-1

Historic City News received the following update from Mark Samson, spokesman for the St Augustine Police Department, to inform readers about recent calls and arrests made by the local police.

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Man sought for questioning about lewd behavior

Media Relations Officer, Kevin Kelshaw, alerted Historic City News that an 11-year-old Rawlings Elementary School student has reported that a man, driving a silver SUV, performed a lewd act in front of her while she was in his vehicle on the way to school Wednesday morning.

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Fatal crash on rural St Johns County highway

Historic City News was informed that a KIA Sorento SUV, headed southbound on Joe Ashton Road, left the roadway this morning after traveling through a curve and struck a tree. The driver, a 22-year-old St Johns County woman, did not survive the crash, according to Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Kelshaw.

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Two sex predator bills headed to Senate Judiciary Committee

Following recently published accounts of a virtual “revolving door” of convicted sexual predators and sex offenders in St Johns County, Historic City News readers have expressed outrage at existing loopholes in the Jimmy Ryce Act; named after a 9-year-old boy who was raped and murdered in South Florida in 1995.

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Squatters on Palmer Street attract police

Two St Augustine residents, who were discovered illegally occupying a private residence at 131 Palmer Street in St Augustine last week, attracted the attention of police after the city utility department reported that the occupants had spliced into the water main and were stealing water and sewer service.

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Pull over for emergency vehicles or risk a ticket

Colonel David Brierton, director of the Florida Highway Patrol, is asking Historic City News readers to be aware of, and comply with, the state’s “Move Over” law when approaching an emergency vehicle that is stopped on the side of the road.

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