An employee of the Grand Bohemian Gallery on King Street reported the theft of a bronze horse sculpture yesterday valued at $4500.

“Cruel Summer”, the name of an undercover operation where male and female detectives pose as juveniles on Internet websites, striking up online conversations with adults looking for sexual encounters, resulted in 17 arrests recently according to information distributed in a press conference yesterday.

At approximately 8:30 p.m. Friday night, the Florida Highway Patrol reported to Historic City News that troopers responded to a single-vehicle motorcycle crash in Flagler Estates.

On Thursday evening August 10th at approximately 5:00 p.m., Historic City News learned that the St Augustine Beach Police were dispatched to Panama Hattie’s Restaurant & Bar to investigate the theft of checks from the manager’s safe.

Historic City News has learned that 593 St Johns County taxpayers became victims of a scheme to defraud that originated within the offices of the St. Johns County Tax Collector, Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC.

About 5:20 p.m. yesterday evening, Historic City News local reporters learned that 67-year-old Tommy Dean Murphy had been arrested by St Augustine Police and was in custody, charged with sexual battery.

Florida Highway Patrol traffic homicide investigators reported to Historic City News that last night about 10:10 p.m., a 65-year-old St Augustine resident was killed while she attempted to cross US-1 on foot.

The St Augustine City Attorney, Isabelle Lopez, told Historic City News that she is relying on a decision in Homeless Helping Homeless, Inc. v. City of Tampa, Florida, No. 8:2015cv01219, Middle District of Florida, to instruct police that panhandlers are not banned in public places around the city.