Shortly before 6:00 p.m. this evening, Historic City News was notified by Kevin Kelshaw that Traffic Homicide Investigators with the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a serious two-vehicle crash that occurred in the area of Woodlawn Road and Begonia Street.

Ken Lawson, Secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, alerted local Historic City News reporters that licensed real estate professionals, and others in St Johns County licensed by the Department, may be the target of an attempted identity theft scam.

The female store clerk at Sharps Liquor on Moody Boulevard in Palm Coast reported to police that, around 5:19 p.m. last night, two black men, both in their early 30s, drew a pistol on her and demanded money from the cash register — along with a $100 bottle of Hennessy.

A 2010 Dodge Avenger traveling southbound on I-95 at a high rate of speed; was observed overtaking slower moving vehicles at about 8:00 p.m. last night; before the driver made an abrupt lane change and lost control of the vehicle.

Two residents of a home in the 2400 block of Hydrangea Street in St Augustine were awaken shortly after 2:00 a.m. this morning when a 2003 Jeep Wrangler came crashing into the house.

After a 28-year-old woman crashed into a marked patrol car last night and fled the scene without stopping, Historic City News learned that deputies caught up to her; only to discover that she had been drinking and was in possession of marijuana.

St Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Matthew Sara reported to Historic City News that at approximately 1:20 a.m. this morning, a suspected methamphetamine lab erupted into flames in the 1900 block of Powell Road in St Augustine.

About an hour ago, Historic City News was informed that the fugitive, 35-year-old Kevin Allen Masters who resides at 5850 St Ambrose Church Rd in Elkton, was taken into custody and incarcerated at the St Johns County Detention Facility.