Category: Public Safety

United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announced to local Historic City News reporters that 64 year-old Andrew J. Hitas, Jr. who resides in Palm Coast, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville on child pornography charges.

A 60 year-old Jacksonville physician, Charles V. Wilson, was indicted Wednesday on ten counts of defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs according to an announcement received by Historic City News.

Detective David Zufelt released a photograph of a man believed to have burglarized a St. Augustine physician’s office at St. Johns Medical Park two months ago after he recently attempted to use a credit card stolen during the incident.

Historic City News reporters were notified by St. Johns County Sheriff’s spokesman, Kevin Kelshaw, that three men are in custody at this time in connection with a home invasion robbery that occurred early this morning in West Augustine.

Chief Loren Lueders told Historic City News this morning that the St. Augustine Police Department treats all of our citizens the same; referring to the arrest on Saturday of city commissioner Errol D. Jones.

Historic City News reporters in St. Augustine have received word that St. Johns County Sheriff’s Detective Jennifer Wiesenfeld is searching for a man who a teenaged girl in Flagler Estates says attempted to abduct her.

Earlier today, Historic City News learned that St. Augustine City Commissioner Errol Donledy Jones has been released from custody at the St. Johns County Detention Facility after being arrested for resisting a police officer.

At about 8:00 p.m. last night, the Florida Highway Patrol reported to Historic City News that a Port Orange woman was killed when she collided with a semi-truck as she traveled north on I-95 from St. Augustine.