Category: Public Safety

Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman Keith Kameg informed Historic City News that the state’s police departments, sheriff’s offices and other crime fighting agencies now have another way to link a suspect with the crime scene — male-specific DNA testing.

Historic City News received word from St Johns County Sheriff’s representative Chuck Mulligan that when deputies executed a search warrant on Wynfield Circle shortly before 9:00 a.m. this morning, they encountered an active “cook” operation that was manufacturing Methamphetamine.

Brandon Meredith Hardy, the 21-year-old aviator who drove his vehicle from his duty station at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, GA, to a residence in St Augustine expecting to meet a “child” to engage in sex, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison and a 15-year term of supervised release.

Historic City News readers are asked to avoid Wildwood Drive between SR-207 and Treaty Park at this time, as members of the sheriff’s bomb squad examine a suspicious package discovered inside a roadside mailbox.

Marcus Pinson informed Historic City News reporters in St Augustine that an extensive rehabilitation of Valencia Street, between Riberia and Malaga Streets, is set to begin on Monday, July 30.

St Augustine Police detective Cecilia Aiple is hoping that Historic City News readers will be able to assist in the identification and location of a person of interest to police; believed to be involved in a grand theft that occurred locally.

Detectives are reporting to Historic City News that the wife of Flagler Beach police patrolman was airlifted Friday evening to the trauma center at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach after she suffered a single gunshot wound to the head.

Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies have taken a 33 year-old Palm Coast man into custody and charged him with the robbery of a Mobile station at 6020 East SR-100 at about 7:11 p.m. last night.