Category: Public Safety

St Augustine Police have contacted Historic City News for assistance to identify and locate those persons responsible for the burglary of the local Target store located at 1440 US-1 South in St Augustine, in the early morning hours Friday, October 25th.

Historic City News reminds our readers that if you want to get drunk and make prank phone calls, be sure you’re not calling 9-1-1 especially if there is no emergency. That lesson was learned early this morning by a St Augustine man who now finds himself in jail.

Acting US Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced to Historic City News today that 67-year-old Charles Lee Gorish, a registered sexual offender who once lived at 5412 Choctaw Street in St Augustine, has entered a guilty plea to transporting images and videos of child pornography from Florida to Canada.

Historic City News crime desk reporters were notified that Monday, the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that a 33-year-old female victim was dropped off at Fire Station 14 on West King Street; she was reporting that she had been sexually assaulted.

When the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call at American Inn on SR-16 last night, the responding deputy found it odd that the victim of that disturbance, 28-year-old Kirby Donnell Miller Jr., did not want to press charges.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement notified Historic City News tonight that the statewide manhunt for two convicted murderers is over. The men used fraudulent documents ordering their release to make good their escapes.

Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw informed Historic City News reporters that a 39-year-old registered sexual offender, who was raised in St Augustine and then moved to Michigan as an adult, is in custody in St Johns County tonight; charged with 100-counts of possession of child pornography — he was convicted of the same crime in…

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In Flagler County, Historic City News reporters learned that, in past years, investigators were largely dependent on the collection of latent fingerprint evidence at major crime scenes to identify persons involved in committing those crimes.