Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies will be stepping up patrols Thursday evening as local youngsters go trick-or-treating for the Halloween holiday, Lt. Bob Weber told local Historic City News reporters today.
St Augustine police spokesman, Mark Samson, informed Historic City News local reporters that when the manager of the Absolute Americana Art Gallery arrived at work yesterday, they discovered considerable vandalism had been done to their building located at 77 Bridge Street.
With City Commissioner Leanna Freeman absent and over the objection of Vice Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline, the mayor and two remaining commissioners acted to make an exception for passengers of privately operated horse-drawn carriages last night; allowing them to drink alcoholic beverages if the carriage driver is properly licensed.
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.
