Category: Public Safety

The Teamsters union ousted the Police Benevolent Association as the certified bargaining agent for the Florida Department of Corrections employees in election results announced by the Public Employee Relations Commission to Historic City News yesterday.

“Wash your windshield for a dollar?” and other begging from St. Augustine sidewalks, where pedestrians today walk up to cars stopped at traffic lights or in motion, could be one step closer to becoming a violation of city ordinance after the regular meeting of the City Commission Monday night.

Historic City News crime reporters have learned that a child pornography investigation in St. Augustine has resulted in one arrest of a convicted sexual offender; 41 year-old Justin Stephen Frazier, who resides at 2242 Dellwood Avenue in Jacksonville.

Tonight, Chief Hedges will swear in Daniel DeCoursey as the new Assistant Chief of Police for the town of St. Augustine Beach and local Historic City News reporters will be watching as fireworks may ensue.

Michael Edward Green escaped capture during a traffic stop late yesterday evening after officers say he fled from the area of South Dixie Highway and Aviles Drive in St. Augustine; according to word received by Historic City News from sheriff’s spokesman, Kevin Kelshaw.

A man is being sought by police today after he reportedly relieved himself in the document tube of a drive-through teller at a Palm Coast bank yesterday, according to an alert forwarded by Public Information Officer Debra Johnson to Historic City News this afternoon.

Historic City News has been notified by the Office of the United States Attorney that an antique family heirloom, stolen by a St. Augustine woman and her accomplice, was returned yesterday to the great grandson of its original owner in Houston, Texas.