FREDERIKSTED – A 33-year-old St. Croix man was arrested domestic violence-related charges Wednesday night, according to the Virgin Islands Police Department. Jonathan Santiago of Hannah’s Rest was arrested at 7:12 p.m. Wednesday and charged with second-degree assault-domestic violence, the VIPD said. Police said Santiago was arrested after got into a

FREDERIKSTED – Police said a report of gunshots fired near a West End housing community was received Wednesday night on St. Croix. The 911 Emergency Call Center was notified at 8:03 p.m. December 9 that gunshots had been fired near the Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion. Responding officers arrived at the

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 20-year-old St. Thomas man has been arrested twice in the last two weeks on charges ranging from robbery to simple assault and vagrancy. Police said that Joshua Adjodha, 20 of Frydenhoj was arrested Wednesday and charged with simple assault and vagrancy. Adjodha was arrested after he

U.S. District Court Judge Curtis Gomez CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 58-year-old St. Thomas man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday to one count of transportation of a minor for sex, U.S. Attorney Ronald Sharpe said. At the conclusion of the hearing, District Court Judge Curtis Gomez remanded Lennox Phillips

      Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 44-year-old St. Thomas man was sentenced to less than seven weeks in prison for having a decapitated sea turtle carcass in the boat he was piloting, federal officials said. U.S. District Court Judge Curtis Gomez on December 4

Eight bricks of the cocaine were secreted away in two backpacks hidden in hold of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica.  PHILADELPHIA – Nearly 20 pounds of cocaine was seized Saturday evening at Philadelphia International Airport after customs officers made a sweep through an American Airlines arrival from Jamaica. Officers

  Sgt. Dazarene Lescott of the U.S. Army CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 39-year-old U.S. Army sergeant was arrested on St. Thomas for allegedly hitting a man over the back of his head with a mobile device in an incident police called a domestic dispute. Police said Dazarene Lescott of Estate

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A St. Thomas woman says she was attacked from behind and robbed of a gold chain early Sunday morning, according to the Virgin Islands Police Department. The 911 Emergency Call Center alerted police at 7:50 a.m. Sunday that a robbery occurred near Kenia’s fashion on Kronprindsens Gade,

RESEARCH SCIENTIST: Linnea Veinotte ST. GEORGE’S – Police in the Caribbean country of Grenada are searching for 36-year-old Linnea Veinotte, who they believe was taken while out for a run Sunday morning. According to a social media post, Veinotte was last seen near her home in the southern tip of

  NOT SO SWIFT: Michael Swift of Bordeaux CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 56-year-old St. Thomas man was arrested by police Sunday after a citizen spotted him loading a stolen television set into his vehicle. Michael Swift of Bordeaux was arrested at 5:20 p.m. Sunday and charged with grand larceny, according