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Controversial former St. Augustine Commissioner ERROL DONLEVY JONES was arrested again January 17, 2019 (last night) -- arrested for the eleventh time since 2011. This time JONES was arrested for alleged battery and resisting an officer.
St. Johns County Court Judge Charles Jay Tinlin held a hearing at 8:30 AM January 17, 2019 (this morning). Judge Tinlin read him his rights and found probable cause to believe that ERROL JONES committed the crimes, found him not indigent or eligible for court-appointed counsel, and ordered him held subject to $1000 bond. UPDATE: As of 1 AM on January 19, 2019, JONES remains in County Jail.
As a Vice Mayor Commissioner, ERROL JONES was most noted for his:
- demanding special favors,
- being a lickspittle for developers, whom he wound fawn over as he insulted citizens,
- chauvinism in opposing Rainbow flags on the Bridge of Lions,
- chauvinism in defending City Manager WILLIAM BARRY over illegal dumping if a landfill in a lake, excoriating those who wanted him prosecuted,
- chauvinism in interrupting me when I spoke about environmental crimes and environmental racism by the City,
- seeking to ban and prosecute street performers from St. George Street.
- being exposed inFolio Weekly in connection with his allegedly using his City Commissioner badge to accost citizens and to search illegally the plastic containers associated with a tour company operating in the public market.
Upon his first arrest, circa 2011, JONES:
- asked the arresting officers, "Do you know who I am?" (This led Commissioner Leanna Sophia Amaru Freeman to remark to colleagues that she would like to change her Commissioner badge to add, "Do you know who I am?"
- sought to enlist City Manager John Patrick Regan, P.E. to get him un-arrested. REGAN rightly refused. (When the City Manager is not blackmailing Commissioners, our police can do their jobs, without fear or favor).
Little of what JONES ever did made it into the pages of the St. Augustine Record.
I have asked SAPD for the records.
(More later).
From St. Johns County Jail Log, here are the inmate records on all eleven (11) JONES arrests:
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