Historic City News readers crossing the Crescent Beach Bridge on SR-206 should expect lane closures, and even complete bridge closures, during an eight month long project of improvements beginning January 3.
Historic City News learned that about an hour ago, Epic Theatre evacuated all auditoriums at 84 Theatre Drive in St Augustine while deputies with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office conducted a weapons search after receiving a report that an unknown man had entered the theatre with a shotgun.
Saturday afternoon, 33-year-old Jason C Stockwell became the third man to be arrested for lewd and lascivious molestation in a wooded area of the Graham Swamp Preservation Area in Palm Coast; after the Sheriff’s Office publicized in October that they were instituting a proactive patrol program to prevent such crimes.
A woman attempting to enter her parked vehicle along the bayfront Christmas night was knocked to the ground and robbed of her purse by three ruffians who were captured by St Augustine police later last night.
Chuck Mulligan, spokesman for the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office, is asking Historic City News to avoid travel on I-95, if possible, while approximately 6 collisions, both north and southbound, are being cleared.
Additional information is available to Historic City News this morning concerning the Christmas Eve crash in Fullerwood Park that left the driver trapped inside his 2013 gray Hyundai Accent 4-door sedan until his was extracted using the “jaws of life”.
Yesterday was the last Christmas for St Augustine resident Trevor Austin Leonardi, who had just turned 25 less than two weeks before, and his wife, 28-year-old Jennifer Ann Roos-Leonardi; they were killed in a tragic Christmas evening crash on Anastasia Island.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m. this morning, a yet unidentified man crashed into a cedar tree along East Park Avenue in St Augustine; resulting in severe damage to his late model Hyundai and forcing first responders to extricate him from the vehicle employing “the jaws of life”.
