Category: Public Safety

After a three day trial that began on Monday, Historic City News reporters waited as a St Johns County jury deliberated for approximately 30-minutes today, before finding 38-year-old David Manuel Martinez guilty of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl until she was 12.

Historic City News was alerted by local law enforcement and emergency medical services that a shooting occurred in the Cypress Links neighborhood of St Johns County shortly after 1:00 a.m. this morning; sending one victim to Orange Park Medical Center via air ambulance.

Local reporters received word that there will be an open house to celebrate the new Hastings Family Medical Center and the renovated Health and Human Services Hastings Resource Center this Friday afternoon; and Historic City News readers are invited to attend.

Laurie Sanderson reported to Historic City News that work along the Bartram Trail roadway, SR-13 from CR-16A to Switzerland, will have an impact on driving, beginning this morning and continuing through the end of the week.

Historic City News has been informed that a 21-year-old St Johns County man was identified and arrested today in connection with an armed robbery that occurred last Thursday in the parking lot of 200 South Woodlawn in St Augustine.

When the CVS Pharmacy, located at 57 Tuscan Way in St Augustine, was robbed Sunday afternoon, one observant Historic City News readers recognized the man who was shown on surveillance video and reported the information to St Johns County Sheriff’s detectives who are following the lead.

The two north-bound lanes of South Castillo Drive in front of Castillo de San Marcos have returned to service as the resurfacing work being done from Cuna Street north to Orange Street has been completed.

The City of St Augustine is alerting Historic City News readers to be expecting the Bridge of Lions to be closed for extended periods overnight on Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28 for repairs.