Category: Public Safety

St Johns County Fire Rescue Lieutenant Kurt Kevin Johnson is one-of-four men arrested in Volusia County last night in an undercover prostitution investigation on South Ridgewood and Freemont Avenue, an area known for prostitution in Daytona Beach.

A Johns Creek woman, who investigators say has been terrorizing a former boyfriend and his associates since he broke off their relationship, was arrested on a second-degree felony warrant yesterday; alleging she made recurring threats that, among other injuries, cost the Ponte Vedra Beach man his 24-year career.

Public Information Officer Mark Samson reported to Historic City News that the St. Augustine Police Department was called to a business on St George Street Saturday night, April 20th, to investigate a suspicious currency transaction.

At 3-minutes past midnight last night, a call came in at the Historic City newsroom from a reader who was reporting the crash of a Silver BMW that had crash-landed upside-down near her home on US-1 south — she had no idea that she had witnessed the end of a high-speed car chase that had…

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Marine Rescue Lieutenant Jeremy Robshaw informed Historic City News reporters in St Johns County that being trained in hands-only CPR can make the difference when someone suffers sudden cardiac arrest — and this year, over 3000 local students have been taught the lifesaving procedure.

In October 2006, Judge Edward Hedstrom overruled the 8-4 jury recommendation that Justin Mertis Barber should be executed; imposing a lesser sentence of life in prison, without parole, for the 2002 murder of his wife, April — but, today, a different judge refused his motion to be granted a new trial.

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief was arrested and taken to jail in St Johns County early Saturday morning after he crashed his 2005 Mercedes 4 door sedan into a tractor trailer on the I-95 exit ramp at SR-206 at about 12:48 a.m., according to a report received by Historic City News today.

Historic City News has learned that shortly after 10:00 p.m. last night, St Augustine Beach police and St Johns County traffic homicide detectives were called to the scene of Floridian Avenue at SR-A1A to investigate a single-vehicle-vs-pedestrian collision that left a local woman dead.