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Narcotics a driving factor in armed robbery planned by St. Augustine comissioner's son

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — A new report reveals the son of a St. Augustine city commissioner asked several people to commit an armed home invasion after narcotics and cash were stolen from him.

Jacob Sikes Kline, 19, told his friends he would give them free drugs if they got his narcotics back from the home on West Jayce Way, according to deputies.

Kline, son of St. Augustine city commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, told them they could keep any additional narcotics they found in the house, according to the arrest report.

He told them there was five pounds of marijuana, oil rigs, bongs and other valuable drug paraphernalia in the house, according to deputies.

On Jan. 25, a group of three people with guns barged into the home and demanded valuables while aggressively pointing firearms at the homeowners.

The victims – two men and one woman in their early 20s – told police they thought they were going to die.

Two men wore masks and a third did not. The three got away with a cellphone, $200 and car keys.

Detectives with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office identified the suspect who did not wear a mask through investigative techniques. He was questioned and arrested.

Three others involved in the robbery were identified and arrested a week later.

Kline turned himself in Monday and was charged with principal to home invasion robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon.

Deputies said Kline is being held on a $100,000 bond.

Sean Edmund Riggs, 18, Larry Thomas Travis Jr., 21, Ronald Tyrone Burch, 20, and Marcus Theodore Lewis, 19, were also charged in the armed robbery.

Riggs, Travis and Burch are charged with home invasion robbery while Lewis is charged with principle to home invasion robbery.

St. Augustine Police are investigating a separate incident involving the Sikes-Kline family during which a Molotov cocktail device was thrown into their home Feb. 26.

It is not known if that was related to the home invasion.

Nancy Sikes-Kline released a statement Monday evening:

We love our son and will do everything we can to help him. Please give us the respect of privacy during this difficult time for our family."