Category: Public Safety

The victim of an attack early Sunday evening, sat with sheriff’s sketch artist Vinnie Russo and tried to recall details about the assailant she says jumped her from behind then struggled with her until she was able to break free.

Sheriff’s deputies in St Johns County are searching for a man who used a credit card that was stolen during a car break-in that occurred January 2nd in the public parking lot along SR-A1A South at the Fort Matanzas National Monument.

The investigation is continuing into the murder of 60 year-old Douglas Wilfred Cracraft, whose body was found lying in the wooded area west of the railroad tracks behind Shoppes of Northtowne in St Augustine Saturday night, January 7th.

Neighbors say 59 year-old Daryl L. Atkins had been drinking last night — to the point that he passed out and fell to the ground in front of his Ponte Vedra Beach condominium; the place, where within hours, he would lose his life.

Sheriff’s representatives, Public Information Officer Sergeant Chuck Mulligan and Community Affairs Corporal Catherine Payne, are on the scene of a despondent individual who they report fired on deputies when they attempted to contact him.