Category: Public Safety

Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw reported to the Crime Patrol desk at Historic City News that the 26-year old transient who has been sought for three months in connection with the disappearance of a 45-year old South Ponte Vedra Beach woman, is back in St. Johns County today.

Historic City News reporters watch as crime scene investigators, being led by Sergeant Michael Etheridge, systematically collect and preserve the critical pieces of evidence left at the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

In what is being described to local Historic City News reporters as a gruesome crime scene in a heavily wooded area, St. Johns County Sheriff’s investigators have located human remains this morning — in advanced stage of decomposition.

Sheriff David B. Shoar dispatched investigators George Harrigan and Charles Brantley to Seattle Washington to interview 26 year-old Joseph Dean Roberts — who has been aggressively sought by the U.S. Marshal Service in a nationwide manhunt that ended Tuesday night.

Historic City News has been notified that 26 year-old Joseph Dean Roberts is in custody in Seattle Washington tonight.

Police were called to the scene of a physical fight near the intersection of Tolomato Street and Spanish Street Thursday night at about 11:11 p.m. according to a report received by Historic City News this weekend.

21 year-old Lavorris Deshawn Session was identified to Historic City News reporters and arrested on October 5th; charged with robbery using a firearm and kidnapping in a drug-deal-gone-bad that occurred shortly after 10:00 p.m. on September 25th at a residence in the 400 block of Green End Lane in Hastings.

St. Augustine Police reported to Historic City News that a traffic stop of a white BMW was conducted at about 10:30 p.m. last Friday night by officer Michael Kettman; after he observed the vehicle run the stop sign at Dumas and Bridge Street.