Just before 11:30 p.m. last night, 19 year-old Derek Lee Mrasak, who resides at 3895 South Francis Road in Saint Augustine, was arrested in connection with the hit-and-run accident that occurred in the wee hours of Saturday morning, according to Sergeant Michael Etheridge with the St. Augustine Police Department.

St. Johns County Traffic Unit Deputy J.D. McGinnis told Historic City News reporters that they responded to a head on crash between two vehicles on Coastal Highway A1A North at the intersection of Gardner Avenue in Vilano Beach before midnight last night.

Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw reported to the Crime Patrol desk at Historic City News that 26-year old transient Joseph Dean Roberts appeared before Circuit Court Judge John Alexander today on charges of auto theft and violation of parole.

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.