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 started hours earlier.
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.
A 27-year-old Neptune Beach man was arrested, and released, yesterday; accused by St Augustine Police of stopping his motorcycle on the Bridge of Lions and beating a passing pedestrian on Sunday, April 7, 2013.
Historic City News has learned that while riding his bicycle westward on West King Street this afternoon, 63-year-old Clifford Wayne Johnson, Sr., was struck and killed when he pulled into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
