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Sheriff says murder most complicated of his career
“It is disturbing; it is something that’s unsettling to the community when it occurs,” Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre said at a news conference this morning at his office in Bunnell. “We may never know the answer” as to why 25-year-old Joseph Frank Bova II targeted Rosado or Flagler County to execute a 33-year-old mother of six as she worked her shift, alone, at the Mobil Station and convenience store on SR-100, east of I-95.
Historic City News has obtained a copy of the investigative report and affidavit of charges against 25-year-old Joseph Frank Bova II, who was arrested yesterday for the February 21st murder of Zuheily Roman Rosado while she was working as a store clerk at the Mobil Gas Station and convenience store located at 6020 East SR-100 in Palm Coast.
Gretl Plessinger reported to Historic City News that a St Johns County man, trusted for the collection and preservation of evidence as a forensic investigator with the Office of the Medical Examiner, was arrested this morning on charges of official misconduct, dealing in stolen property, and false verification of ownership on a pawnbroker transaction form.
Shoppers beware — Historic City News has been informed that a man and woman, apparently working as a team, are being sought in connection with the theft of two wallets; picked from the purses of separate victims at two local grocery stores last Friday.
City Police spokesman, Mark Samson, reminds Historic City News readers that everyone in the crowds that have followed the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover to St Augustine has not necessarily come to town to enjoy the music.
St Johns County Sheriff’s Detective Samantha English has been busy rounding up burglars following a rash of break-ins to vehicles throughout the Northwest District of the county within the past several months. Historic City News received word of the re-arrest of one, and three additional arrests over the past few days.
The man law enforcement officials are telling Historic City News committed the robbery of a Compass Bank branch located on US-1 South last Tuesday at 2:37 p.m., is in custody in the Palm Beach County jail. According to Sheriff’s spokesman, Kevin Kelshaw, the man may have also committed a bank robbery in Volusia County and attempted another in Flagler County late last month.