Category: Public Safety

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office reported to Historic City News that they are partnering with Target and the Flagler County School District to promote “National Night Out”, a nationwide move to fight crime.

Dear Editor: You do not need to go to Washington to find Tyranny. It’s alive and well in St. Johns County.

United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announced to Historic City News that a convicted sexual offender from Tennessee, who failed to register once he moved to Putnam County, pled guilty to federal charges in Jacksonville last week.

Historic City News has been notified by Public Information Officer Mark Samson that a local woman jumped from the center span of the Bridge of Lions yesterday evening during the peak of rush-hour traffic.

Historic City News received word that a 39 year-old United States Postal Inspector was arrested late Sunday as a result of a dispute with his brother — following the death of their father. Bryan J. Watts was charged with domestic violence false imprisonment, domestic violence simple battery and domestic violence aggravated assault with a deadly…

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Historic City News learned from Public Information Officer Mark Samson, that a 42 year-old homeless man stabbed a Newcomb Street resident last night outside of the south entrance to the Lightner Museum on Granada Street.

At about 4:40 p.m. this afternoon, Historic City News was notified by Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Leeper, that troopers were on the scene of an overturned vehicle traveling southbound on I-95 south of World Golf Village.

The attitude at the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office today is that they have some answers and they have many more questions in the violent murder of Fruit Cove resident 53 year-old Daniel Stuart Somerson.