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.

St Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Matthew Sara informed Historic City News that a 36-year-old St Augustine man has been transported by air ambulance to UF Health Jacksonville hospital with critical injuries after his bicycle collided with a turning Ford F-150 pickup truck.

A search warrant was served this morning at 6481 San Pietro Isle in St Augustine, where Special Investigations Unit detectives, members of the Clandestine Lab Enforcement Team, and Special Weapons and Tactics deputies uncovered an active methamphetamine lab.

Historic City News has learned that at 12:38 p.m. today, the driver of a white pickup truck on SR-207 lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a power pole, downing power lines; but, according to Sergeant Dylan L Bryan with Florida Highway Patrol, no one was injured.

St Johns County Sheriff’s investigators are asking for Historic City News readers to see if they recognize the man caught on surveillance video as he robbed the BBVA Compass Bank located at 1695 US-1 South this afternoon.