julington creek

We are looking for performing and creative artists of all kinds for a FREE Music and Arts Festival to be held in the JCP area Saturday June 28 from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m..
 
We need 33 performing artists and 50+ creative artists!
 
2,000 people are expected to attend so this is an excellent opportunity for exposure!
 
For information on how to register go to www.myspace.com/freeartmusicfest
 
Or email gail323is@bellsouth.net

A jet ski driver was killed Saturday when he collided with a boat in Durbin Creek in northern St. Johns County. A passenger, identified by authorities as the driver’s girlfriend, was critically injured and was flown to Shands Jacksonville by rescue helicopter.
Investigators hadn’t concluded how fast each vessel was traveling, or whether alcohol played any role in the collision. The driver of the boat wasn’t injured.
Investigators said people onboard another boat heard the collision and brought the victims to the closest boat ramp, at Hood Landing on Julington Creek in Mandarin. Both people on the jet ski were wearing life vests, investigators said.
The names of the 19-year-old driver and 18-year-old passenger were not released because authorities were still contacting their families. Check Jacksonville.com and Sunday’s Times-Union for updates.

A Julington Creek Plantation man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography by computer. He also has to forfeit his home and pay restitution.

Investigators raided the home of Darrell Mark Krause last year and seized his computer and three external hard disk drives that contained 17,100 digital photos and 1,400 videos depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. this week sentenced Krause, 42, to the prison term to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Krause was ordered to pay $3,220 in restitution to one of his victims depicted in his pornographic images. He also agreed to forfeit his St. Johns County home at 292 Maplewood Drive to the federal government because he used it to commit the offense.

Due to weather conditions on Saturday, March 8, the Julington Creek Baseball Opening Ceremonies at Mills Field were cancelled. The festivities, which are open to the public, have been rescheduled for this upcoming Saturday, March 14 at Mills Field (off Race Track Road) from 9 a.m to 7 p.m.

The St. Johns County Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program had its second public meeting at Fruit Cove Middle School last night, March 6 at 7 p.m. Over 50 Julington Creek residents attended the meeting, which intended to propose and discuss possible solutions to the speeding problem throughout the Julington Creek neighborhood.

-The first proposed solution involved intersection improvements around the neighborhood, consisting of pavement markings and striped stop bars, speed feedback signs and 6” yellow and white edge lines.

-The second solution proposed installing an approximated 11 speed humps on numerous roads in the Julington Creek area. The humps would be 22 feet long, and could reduce overall speeds anywhere from five to nine miles per hour. It was mentioned that these humps could possibly cause some drainage issues.

A joint investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigations Unit ended with the seizure of 117 marijuana plants Wednesday night and the arrest of a Julington Creek Plantation resident.

Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Chuck Mulligan says a month-long investigation lead officers to a home in the 200 block of Hawthorn Hedge Lane, the site of the growing operation. Officers reported they could smell a distinct odor of marijuana coming from the house as they approached, and that when they contacted the resident, Pinto Nelson Duque, 34, he admitted he was growing marijuana.

Duque was arrested and charged with Cultivation of Marijuana and taken to the St. Johns County Jail.

Mulligan says the seized drugs have an estimated value of $117,000, and that investigators also seized $5,000 worth of chemicals, fertilizers and growing equipment.

Indoor pot cultivation is on the increase, Mulligan said, because better enforcement and improved investigative techniques are driving pot growers indoors. He cites the use of law enforcement aircraft and coordination with the FDLE and the Florida National Guard as a major factor in the reduction of outdoor marijuana cultivation.