Category: Public Safety

The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 30 year-old woman on Arson charges stemming from a verbal domestic dispute, which escalated into an arson incident reported by Historic City News earlier today.

Early this morning, Historic City News freelance photographer Christopher Kimball reported to the St. Augustine local news desk that investigators are still looking into the cause of what was originally reported as a structure fire in the Dancy Tract in West Augustine.

Historic City News reporters have learned that a Leesburg man has been arrested by Lake County Sheriff’s deputies Wednesday following an armed robbery and reported kidnapping at a Flagler County landscaping nursery.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Debra Johnson reported to local news reporters that deputies were on the scene of an armed robbery and kidnapping that occurred around 11:10 a.m. at Christian Nursery and Landscaping on Bimini Lane in West Flagler County.

The Historic City News local news desk has received word that two St. Johns County teenagers have been arrested — charged with one count each of burglary and larceny and possibly facing additional vehicular burglary charges.

Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw told local St. Johns County news reporters that on Saturday, February 27th, the Youth Services Unit of the Sheriff’s Office conducted an alcohol compliance detail as a continuing aspect of the “Party’s Over” campaign.

The local St. Augustine news desk has learned that at sometime between about 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning, a Matanzas Boulevard residence was burglarized.

The local St. Augustine news desk has learned that shortly after 10:00 last night, while on bicycle patrol in the area of Nesbit Street and Chapin Street, Police Officer Thomas Lawhun observed a man leaned over in the driver seat of gold Ford SUV.