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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Somourian Jamal Wingo, the man the Florida Highway Patrol tells Historic City News was shot and killed in Palatka early this morning by a state trooper attempting to make a simple traffic stop, is apparently no stranger to St Johns County law enforcement.
