Yesterday at 1:34 p.m., St Augustine Police Officer Samuel Panilag and Corporal James Giammarinaro responded to a disturbance involving four people at the Subway on San Marco Avenue, according to a report obtained by Historic City News.
With students attending Ketterlinus Elementary School on summer vacation, Historic City News learned that, last week, members of the St Augustine Police Department were given permission to use the campus to create realistic, hands-on, “active shooter” scenarios as part of on-going yearly training for their officers.
Historic City News was notified that US District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced 36-year-old Frank Freitas Higginbotham of Hastings, to 15 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine during a hearing June 24, 2013.
St Johns County Fire Rescue officials are reminding Historic City News readers to use extreme caution when using or discharging fireworks of any kind during 4th of July celebrations.
Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw told Historic City News that five residents have reported car burglaries that all occurred yesterday evening between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at three different locations in the Fruit Cove area.
St Augustine Police Officer Alina Shirshikova was called to the St George Tavern just after midnight yesterday to investigate the report of a sexual battery of a woman by a man she says she met earlier in the evening inside the downtown bar; according to a report received by Historic City News today.
The City of St Augustine has informed Historic City News of detours, street closures, and parking management needed to control traffic before, during, and after the upcoming Thursday, July 4 Fireworks over the Matanzas event.
