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
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.
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.
Historic City News has learned that a former deputy sheriff in St Johns and Putnam counties, who now works at World Gym on US-1, has been arrested and charged with video voyeurism after detectives say he used a cell phone to photograph people without their knowledge.
After being found guilty on December 11 of all four-counts of lewd or lascivious sexual battery against a child, James Howard Scharfschwerdt will appear in court for sentencing on Tuesday February 5th — but this case is not over yet.
Monica Reifeiss reported the following St Augustine and St Johns County locations to Historic City News where the Florida Department of Transportation will be conducting roadwork that is expected to have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the coming week.
In a scheme that abused the trust of an elderly Ponte Vedra Beach man by his caregiver, St Johns County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Kelshaw informed local Historic City News reporters that an arrest has been made after detectives found that more than $100,000 in exploited property.
Cannabis with an estimated street value of $157,000 was confiscated from a 47-year-old St Johns County man by officers with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office and the Tri-County Narcotics Task Force when they executed a search warrant at his home this morning.
