Category: Public Safety

A former long-time Sheriff’s Office employee and once lieutenant assigned to the St Johns County Detention Facility finds himself detained today after violation of his probation on charges of aggravated stalking last year, according to a report received by Historic City News from Sheriff’s spokesman, Chuck Mulligan.

In court for a pre-trial hearing Tuesday, Historic City News reporters learned that 27 year-old Alan Everett Squire who resided at 70 Washington Street in St Augustine, pled guilty then was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted robbery of the T-11 convenience store located at 52 San Marco Avenue.

Corporal Catherine Payne reported to Historic City News that a St Johns County Sheriff’s deputy is receiving medical treatment at Flagler Hospital for a violent dog bite to his leg that occurred within the past hour.

Last night, Historic City News learned that officers were called to a residence on Regency Lane where witnesses reported that a woman was brutally beaten then forced into a blue vehicle that fled the scene.

St Johns County Sheriff David B. Shoar has asked Historic City News readers for their help in locating a 30-year-old St Johns County man who is a fugitive from justice; named in two separate warrants.

This morning an Anastasia Island businessman was taken into custody by St Augustine police; accused of attempting to run down a man, and his one-year-old child, while recklessly backing his pick-up truck in the alley that separates his repair shop from the victims place of residence.

Shots rang out at Jacksonville Episcopal High School at 1:23 pm today leaving two adults dead according to a report received by Historic City News from Jacksonville Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Melissa J. Bujeda late this afternoon.

Historic City News was notified by State Attorney R. J. Larizza that, after a one day bench trial, the now 16-year-old St Augustine girl who used red spray paint to paint the eyes and nose of the statues at the west end of the Bridge of Lions, has been found guilty as charged of Criminal…

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