Thursday, February 01, 2018

DR. GRIMES' ALLEGED ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES COVERUP? Republican State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA Refuses to Prosecute Dr. JAMES GRIMES, M.D. For Dune Destruction



FLAGLER HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF PRESIDENT DR. JAMES. M. GRIMES, M.D. escaped environmental crime prosecution for hacking a 10x30 foot hole in the dune behind his beach house at #2 12th Lane in the City of St. Augustine after Hurricane Irma. See "Physician Heal This Dune -- Bulldozer Damaged Dune, Homeowner Gets FDEP Ultimatum -- Flagler Hospital Medical Staff President, JAMES MICHAEL GRIMES, M.D." here.

In December 2016, Dr. GRIMES demanded that the City of St. Augustine Beach help launder his lawbreaking by joining with him in a permit for an unneeded beach walkover. I compared this chutzpa to a child who kills his parents and asks the court for mercy because he is an orphan.

Led by St. Augustine Beach Mayor Undine George, City Commissioners rightly refused. GRIMES' rash actions risked storm surge and flooding of nearby homeowners, while risking the City's longterm relationship with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beach renourishment program.

No one in St. Johns County is EVER prosecuted for environmental crimes, or for white collar crime and corruption.

"That's the way it is" when you elect dull, devious "pro-business" Republicans like State' Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA and Sheriff DAVID SHOAR (who changed his name from "HOAR" in 1994).

Corrupt one-party Republican misrule in St. Johns County is a stench in the nostrils of our Nation, as established by investigative reporting by The New York Times and PBS Frontline.

I have asked LARIZZA for all documents on his latest refusal to prosecute an influential alleged lawbreaker.

Three cheers for the City of St. Augustine Beach Police Chief Robert Hardwick for doing his job and presenting the case to his ex-boss, R.J. LARIZZA.

Is it time for State's Attorney R.J. LARIZZA to retire? Is R.J. LARIZZA a disgrace to the human race?



State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA and Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR



No charges will be filed in dune damage



A photo provided by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection shows a dune at the end of 12th Lane in St. Augustine Beach after it was restored. A worker for James and Grace Grimes had removed sand from the dune while cleaning up the property after Hurricane Irma. [CONTRIBUTED]
By Sheldon Gardner
Posted Jan 31, 2018 at 5:39 PM
Updated Jan 31, 2018 at 5:39 PM

The State Attorney’s Office of the7th Judicial Circuit won’t pursue charges against anyone for damage to a sand dune in St. Augustine Beach in September.

Bryan Shorstein, spokesman for the State Attorney’s Office, wrote in an email to The Record that the office does not believe the behavior of Dr. James or Grace Grimes or George Leon Smith Jr. warrants criminal prosecution.

“After speaking with the [Florida Department of Environmental Protection], we are satisfied that the dunes have been restored,” Shorstein said.

St. Augustine Beach police forwarded charges against all three people after Smith removed sand from the dunes on the Grimes’ 12th Lane property.

James Grimes said that after Hurricane Irma he and his wife asked Smith to clean up their property but did not reference the dunes, and that the crossover was already there before the hurricane. Smith told a police officer that he only removed sand that had filled back into a crossover that existed before the storm, according to the police report.

Two charges related to taking sand from the dunes without FDEP approval and having someone driving on the dunes were forwarded against the Grimes. Police also forwarded one charge of driving on the dunes against Smith.

After police forwarded charges, the State Attorney’s Office waited for the the FDEP to finish its investigation. After the Grimeses had the dune restored, FDEP decided not to issue a fine.


Edward Adelbert Slavin
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1. Another coverup by rebarbative Republican State's Attorney Ralph Joseph Larizza?
2. Louche LARIZZA halted his investigative staff's effort to exhume Michelle O'Connell's body in 2011 by recusing himself. Five months after homicide in home of Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Banks.
3. Maladroit mendacious monochromatic SAO never prosecutes people with power or influence.

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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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1. Dull Republican Seventh Circuit State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA REFUSES to follow and REFUSES to distribute -- to his 82 attorneys in four (4) counties -- the National District Attorney's Association "National Prosecution Standards." http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/NDAA%20NPS%203rd%20Ed.%20w%20Revised%20Commentary.pdf
2. Why? We have a Right to Know.
3. R.J. LARIZZA refuses to answer. Why?
4. R.J. LARIZZA is currently the President of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
5. What a joke.
  • 1 hour ago
Tom Reynolds
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Let us all go OVER THIS STUPID ON STERIODS by the St Augustine Beach Police Department, Little Wobbie aka Robert Hardwick, current holder of Chief of Police.

THERE WAS NO CRIME AT ANY TIME PERIOD!

BUT LITTLE WOBBS HAD TO PUT ON A show FOR A few haters OF DR GRIMES!

HOWEVER, WHEN OUR HIGHLY UNETHICAL COMMISSIONER RICH O'BRIEN DESTROYED A 20 TIMES THE SIZE OF THE DUNE HOLE in the GRIMES NOTHING BURGER, , CHIEF LITTLE WOBBS WENT INTO CRIMINAL COVER-UP FOR O'Brien. RICH O'BRIEN WAS PUMPING POLLUTED STORM AND SWIMMING POOL WATER INTO THE DUNES FOR 5 DAYS. I KNOW CAUSE I CAUGHT him WHEN WALKING ON BEACH. IT IS ALL RECORDED ON VIDEO plus STILL PHOTOS AND THE COWARD ROBERT HARDWICK REFUSED TO DO HIS JOB PERIOD!

The SOON TO BE FIRED CHIEF Robert Hardwick is a VERY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL COP. People should remember one MAJOR THING ABOUT HARDWICK, He is part of the cover-up of the Michell O'Connell MURDER BY DEPUTY JERMY BANKS. Hardwick was Chief Investigator for the 7th Judicial State attorneys office and is a WELL KNOW SHERIFF SHOAR PUPPET!

How can Hardwick be Chief of Police anywhere is beyond any NORMAL CITY WAYS. But in St Augustine Beach aka CORRUPTION JUNCTION, anything goes.

Well, Dr. Grimes is of THE HIGHEST CHARACTER in St Johns CountyPERIOD!

and SABPD has a HUGE CREDIBILITY PROBLEM BECAUSE OF ROBERT HARDWICK and COMMISSIONER RICH O" BRIEN!

LUCKILY WE STILL HAVE GREAT POLICE OFFICERS LIKE ED MARTINEZ and OFFICER PAUL ABEL, plus other GREAT POLICE OFFICERS!

Thank you to the GOOD OFFICERS of the SABPD WHO DO A GREAT JOB!

WE THE RESIDENTS KNOW WHO THE GOOD COPS ARE WHO DO THEIR JOB WITHOUT INTERFERENCE of HARDWICK!« less
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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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@Tom Reynolds Failure to prosecute O'Brien and Grimes are BOTH potential crimes. No confidence in local law enforcement officials' competence or willingness to enforce our state laws against environmental crimes. Not a priority for bumbling business-friendly Republican apparatchiks in Sheriff David Shoar's corrupt political machine.
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Edward Adelbert Slavin
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1. In 2006, City of St. Augustine City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRIS dumped a landfill in a lake in West Augustine (our Old City Reservoir, demurely termed a "water-filled borrow pit" by City defenders and in skittish, shallow St. Augustine Record news stories).
2. Criminal intent? Our St. Augustine City Commissioners and City Attorney were kept in the dark. HARRISS acted rashly. City Commissioners did NOT vote to approve dumping contaminated solid waste. WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS did NOT ask then-City Attorney, James Patrick Wilson (whom I recommended the City of St. Augustine Beach hire as City Attorney in 2016). Mr. Wilson stated in his televised interview with SAB City Commission, "I worked there for fourteen years. They dumped a landfill in a lake. They didn't ask me. They didn't tell me. And I figured it was time to move on."
3. There was NO criminal prosecution of HARRISS by State's Attorney R.J. LARIZZA or Florida DEP (which might as well stand for "Don't Expect Protection)."
4. In 2010, HARRISS retired.
5. Then HARRISS was hired by his former subordinate, controversial St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, (former SAPD Chief, hired by HARRISS).
6. SHOAR now pays HARRIS $1500/month.
7. Sad, sickening how developers, HARRISS, O'BRIEN & GRIMES can commit environmental crimes with impunity.
8. Environmental crimes must be prosecuted, without fear or favor, from this day forward.
9. Republican States' Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA is an "unjust steward" of environmental law, a "cognitive miser," who "knows not that he knows not that he knows not."
10. Is case-fixing environmental crimes obstruction of justice?
11. Enough flummery, dupery & nincompoopery.
12. Lazy, louche, lackadaisical hick hack State's Attorney R.J. LARIZZA should resign. Now.« le

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