Public Safety

Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt Charles E Mulligan informed local Historic City News reporters that assets from the dive team, patrol division and fire-rescue, responded to the sighting of a 2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo; found partially submerged, head-first, in the St Johns River near the Shands Bridge on SR-16.

Both the Winn-Dixie grocery store and Hess convenience store located on CR-210 West, reported to the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office that a young woman, whose image was captured on surveillance video, attempted to use a credit card that had been reported stolen from the area last month.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Debra Johnson told Historic City News that three Palm Coast teenagers were taken into custody after they were caught stealing Christmas decorations and damaging mailboxes along several city streets overnight on Saturday and early yesterday morning.

Historic City News readers in the area of the Guana River Wildlife Management Area should prepare for some inconveniences during the upcoming 2012-2013 prescribed fire season; according to Public Information Coordinator Joy M. Hill, for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Northeast Region.

When he showed up at a St Johns County school Friday, a 26-year-old substitute teacher was taken into custody by deputies for having child pornography on his computer hard drive, according to an arrest report obtained by Historic City News today.

In a report obtained by Historic City News, Dr. Predag Bulic, 23rd District Medical Examiner, reported that he used tattoo photographs and fingerprint evidence to identify the body of the 35-year-old victim, killed Wednesday evening when she stepped onto the roadway of I-95.

St Augustine Police spokesman Mark Samson announced to Historic City News that, because the crime remains unsolved 38 years later, cold case Detective Corporal Charles Simpson is taking another look into the investigation of the brutal murder of Marine Street resident, Frances Bemis.