Category: Public Safety

Drunk driver who killed Shae Burchfield is sentenced

Two and a half years after 18-year-old Shae Lynn Burchfield lost her life in a traffic crash in St Augustine, Historic City News has learned that her intoxicated assailant, 53-year-old Frederick James Andrews, has accepted a plea agreement that will send him to prison for five years.

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Manhunt on for downtown bank robber

Saint Augustine Police spokesman Mark Samson alerted Historic City News that a joint manhunt with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office is underway in downtown St Augustine after this morning’s robbery of Wells Fargo at 24 Cathedral Place.

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Syrian nationals convicted of marriage fraud

Historic City News was notified that a federal jury in Jacksonville found three Syrian citizens guilty of evading US immigration laws, making false statements to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and unlawfully attempting to procure naturalization and citizenship through a fraudulent marriage scheme.

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Woman arrested during domestic altercation

Community Affairs Corporal Catherine Payne reported to Historic City News that, just before midnight, deputies from the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office were called to the residence at 8485 CR-13 North by the victim of a domestic disturbance.

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Florida sheriffs resolve to support right to bear arms

Florida Sheriffs Association Proclamation 2013-1 Support of Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution WHEREAS, the Florida Constitution in Article VIII, Section 1(d), created the Office of the Sheriff and invested the Sheriff with certain powers necessary to carry out his or her duties to serve and protect the public; and

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Burglar captured with stolen property

Community Affairs Corporal Catherine Payne updated Historic City News this morning with word that the man sought in connection with two car burglaries that occurred last week in the early morning hours of January 28, has been identified and arrested.

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Wendy’s robbery under investigation

Shortly after 10:00 a.m. this morning, a man wearing a dark gray camouflage jacket and red and white Nike running shoes, walked into Wendy’s at 1830 US-1 South and demanded money from the cashier at the counter, according to a report received by Historic City News in St Augustine.

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