FUGITIVE RETURNS: Police Detectives Collect Jahani Joseph in Atlanta After Fender Bender Check Reveals He’s Wanted For Attempted Murder

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WANTED FUGITIVE: Jahani Joseph of St. Thomas

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man wanted for attempted murder has been returned to the territory to face the music here.

Jahani Joseph, 25, faces attempted murder and first-degree assault charges.

Joseph was involved in an automobile accident in Georgia and police there identified him as a wanted fugitive from the Virgin Islands in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.

Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) detectives took an early Christmas boondoggle to Atlanta to collect Joseph there.

He was returned to St. Thomas on Tuesday. Further details about the auto accident were not available.

Unable to post $450,000 bail Joseph was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections  pending an advice of rights hearing.

 

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.