Category: Public Safety

Chief David O’Brien told Historic City News this morning that the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office may have a solution, in cooperation with the School District that would allow the community at large to monitor school campuses with just a click of a mouse.

Kevin Kelshaw, Media Relations Officer for the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office, informed Historic City News that, last night, Ronald Pariso, the 77-year-old man missing from Julington Creek, had been located in good condition.

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported to Historic City News that, after three weeks of online voting, the design for the new Florida license plate with the solid green bars and the artistic orange, forming the ‘O” in the word Florida, has been chosen as “the most popular”.

Historic City News learned, in an alert from Florida Highway Patrol Troop G, that the driver of a 2001 Honda Civic that crashed into a power pole on CR-13 at about 11:12 p.m. last night, has been charged with Careless Driving and additional charges are pending receipt of the results of a blood alcohol test.

An elderly man from Pennsylvania who is now residing in Fruit Cove has gone missing this morning in the Julington Creek area and St Johns County investigators are asking you for assistance in locating him.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced five members of the “Guardians” gang last Friday to federal prison terms. Maynard Kenneth Godwin (33, Jacksonville), Andrew Chase Wilkie (31, Callahan) and Eric Steven Ellis (28, Atlantic Beach) were convicted of conspiracy and violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

When Historic City News reporter Lindsay Norton went for her daily walk on Vilano Beach this morning, she was surprised to find a 64-foot yacht that ran aground after it broke free from its anchor in the St Augustine inlet.

The scene was tense last night when Debra Johnson reported to Historic City News that a 32-year-old Palm Coast man, armed with an 18″ machete, was shot and killed by a Flagler County deputy sheriff; after a Taser shot failed to stay his advance against another officer.