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”.

A St Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman told Historic City News this morning that last night’s response to a report of smoke coming from inside a structure in the 100 block of St George Street was an example of being “safe not sorry” — even though no fire was located.

Synthetic drugs, commonly called “bath salts,” “K2” or “Spice”, have been reclassified by an emergency rule that effectively outlaws the sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to sell these substances; and, recently the Sheriff tells Historic City News that his office has begun compliance checks.