Category: Public Safety

St. Johns County Sheriff David B. Shoar announced to local Historic City News reporters in St. Augustine, that his office was recently awarded a “Solving Cold Cases with DNA” grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

At about 8:15 a.m. this morning, sheriff’s spokesman, Sgt. C. E. Mulligan, reported to Historic City News that deputies were on the scene of a vehicular crash involving a passenger car and a school bus on SR-16 near Inman Road in St. Augustine.

As professional panhandlers have become more and more prevalent on the street corners at several congested intersections in St. Augustine, Historic City News recommends that police adopt tactics like those used in central Florida to improve driver awareness of seat belt laws, traffic control devices and unlawful speed.

Historic City News has received a request from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office to publish the surveillance image of a man who is being sought in connection with burglaries that occurred to five vehicles and a home in the Hideaway Lake subdivision, off Old Moultrie Road earlier this month. The suspect, observed on a…

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Historic City News was on hand today when a bronze statue to commemorate and memorialize the hard work of the Sheriff’s K-9 officers and their handlers was dedicated at the Memorial Courtyard in front of the Sheriff’s Office in St. Augustine.

Historic City News learned from the Florida Department of Transportation that St. Johns Sheriff’s Corporal Robin Juratovac will be recognized at a ceremony on Wednesday, October 26th as a “Top Officer” for her outstanding efforts during the 2011 Train Safety Awareness Week.

St. Johns County Fire Rescue spokesperson, Jeremy Robshaw, informed Historic City News that personnel were dispatched this afternoon to a reported Level III emergency at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport at St. Augustine.