Category: Public Safety

Public Information Officer Mark Samson reported to Historic City News that last night, the St. Augustine Police Department was called to the parking lot at the intersection of Cordova Street and Carrera Street to investigate a report of a stolen vehicle.

Sheriff’s detectives have reported to Historic City News that they have identified six suspects, including five juveniles, who they say are responsible for a number of auto burglaries that occurred in the St. Augustine Shores community early Saturday morning.

Historic City News received an incident report from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit where deputies are investigating a three vehicle crash that occurred early this morning in Ponte Vedra Beach.

South Carolina Probation and Parole agents have been looking for 44 year-old William Henry Woodson who is a convicted child sex offender that violated his probation; Historic City News has learned that their search is over.

Historic City News has been notified that at about 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, 51 year-old Frederick James Andrews was arrested in connection with the vehicular homicide of 18 year-old Shae Lynn Burchfield of St. Augustine.

St. Johns County Sheriff David B. Shoar informed Historic City News today that investigators have identified the skeletal remains which were discovered in a wooded area off of SR 207, in June of 2008.

Just after 1:00 a.m. this morning, Historic City News learned that 31 year-old Jose Guillermo Martinez was taken into custody by deputies with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office — and he remains in the County Detention Facility in lieu of $150,000 bond.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office reported to Historic City News that they have added a new reporting system similar to the one adopted by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office recently; which allows Flagler County residents the same ease of filing petit crime complaints online.