Category: Public Safety

Hours spent attempting to clean hazardous spill

Historic City News has learned that St Johns County emergency services personnel were on the scene of a chemical spill for approximately 6 hours today; attempting to mitigate the leak from a tractor-trailer that crashed while traveling south along I-95.

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Transient suspected of spraying urine on local stores

St Augustine Public Works personnel are in the process of cleaning a section of St George Street that police say was contaminated by an Atlanta man earlier today as he sprayed a yet undetermined liquid on the doors and windows of businesses located along the street.

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Smell tips off hotel guests about meth lab in room

Historic City News reporters in St Augustine were notified that shortly before 5:00 a.m. this morning, several guests of the Days Inn, at I-95 and 2550 SR-16, reported that they observed strange activity and smells coming from Room 244 — the night manager led deputies to the room to find a clandestine methamphetamine lab.

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Three officers and civilian required to restrain detainee

Just after midnight this morning, Historic City News was informed that two St Johns County Sheriff’s deputies and a supervisor responded to a call for assistance at a residence on CR-204 in Hastings, where 48-year-old Billy Cullen Sapp Jr was in a rage — threatening his family, including four small children, and damaging a motor…

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