Category: Public Safety

Historic City News received word that, last night, a 27 year-old Oklahoma man was arrested after he pulled and pointed a rifle at teenagers in a car after an argument at a traffic light in Palm Coast.

Historic City News reporters learned that State Attorney R.J. Larizza joined St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar this afternoon to announce a new publication “Know the Law” that is being handed out in St. Johns County middle and high schools.

St Augustine Police Department Public Information Officer, Mark Samson, notified Historic City News that police are searching for a mentally handicapped student who has been missing since yesterday.

Historic City News has learned that a St. Johns County man and woman were arrested Tuesday afternoon when Special Investigations Unit Detectives served a search warrant at their residence — two other men who fled the scene remain fugitives at this time.

For the second time in the past thirty-days, the Florida Highway Patrol has reported a deputy sheriff involved in a serious collision in his patrol car — while driving off duty — this time, involving the death of a pedestrian.

Property Crimes Unit Detectives are seeking the identity of two individuals in connection with several thefts that recently occurred at Publix Supermarket in Sawgrass Village, and the Sheriff is asking Historic City News readers for their help.

Historic City News has learned that a 68 year-old man who was admitted to practice law in Tampa in 1970, but was later convicted of two counts of sexual battery against a child, is currently living in St. Augustine South as he serves his court-ordered term of community monitoring as a registered sexual offender.