Category: Public Safety

Community Resource Officer Mark Samson informed local Historic City News reporters that a warrants check by St Augustine police officers last night has resulted in the arrest of a 20-year-old man on 50 separate charges of failure to appear.

At the heart of the police shooting reported by Historic City News Thursday morning, was a St Johns County deputy’s discovery of a stolen 2012 KIA Sorento in the west parking lot of the Quality Inn located at SR-16 and Interstate 95.

At 10:21 p.m. last night, a customer who told Historic City News reporters that he stops almost daily at the Interstate Mobil gas station located at 6020 East SR-100 entered the Palm Coast convenience store to find the clerk lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

In accordance with Florida State Statute 775.21, this news release will serve as public notification that the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been given information that a person judged to be a sexual predator is now residing within St. Johns County.

Yesterday, a federal jury found 36-year-old Frank Freitas Higginbotham of Hastings guilty of one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of distribution of methamphetamine.

Historic City News has learned that representatives from the State Attorney’s Office, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the St Johns, Flagler, Putnam and Volusia County sheriff’s offices joined Congressman Ron DeSantis in St Augustine yesterday to discuss law enforcement services.

St Johns County Sheriff’s Public Information Sergeant, Chuck Mulligan, informed local Historic City News reporters that an air TASER, or other electronic incapacitation device, has provided deputy sheriffs with a less lethal alternative to shooting since 1999.