Category: Public Safety

Police spokesman Mark Samson cautions Historic City News readers that events associated with the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Ponce de Leon landing in Florida scheduled for Wednesday, April 3, will necessitate interruptions in traffic in downtown St Augustine.

Historic City News has learned that a 20-year veteran of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office was arrested last night and he has been booked into the Flagler County Detention Facility following an argument with his ex-wife that investigators say turned violent.

Charges are pending, according to the traffic homicide report forwarded to Historic City News last night, after a two-car collision left two men injured, one critically, and a female passenger who died at the scene.

Over the past two weeks, undercover deputies and a teenaged operative conducted two underage tobacco enforcement details around the county; and, now that operation “Dry Spring” has concluded, the results have been reported to Historic City News.

State Attorney spokesperson Klare Ly reported to Historic City News yesterday afternoon as the sentence came down in the emotional case of a St Johns County man who, at one time, stood on the side of the law.

Charges are pending as Florida Highway Patrol investigators try to determine what caused a single car collision off I-95 near SR-207 just before 5:00 a.m. this morning that sent both occupants to the trauma center at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center.

Local, state and federal law enforcement officials reported to Historic City News that they began executing 54 search warrants and 57 arrest warrants yesterday against participants in the Allied Veterans of the World conspiracy; in 23 Florida counties and five additional states — as of 1:00 p.m. today, 49 have been arrested.