Police Need Your Help To Find Missing Teen Saviana Charles (UPDATED!)

John McCarthy April 21, 2019

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police on St. Thomas say they need your help today to locate a missing teenager who is described as being a “runaway minor.”

Saviana Charles, 15, was last seen in Lindbergh Bay on Friday night, the Virgin Islands Police Department said today.

Charles was described by the VIPD as being a black female from St. Thomas. She has a medium brown complexion and stands about 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs about 110 pounds.

At the time she was last seen near Cyril E. King Airport about 8:10 p.m. on Friday she was wearing black shorts and a black shirt.

VIPD spokesman Glen Dratte told the Virgin Islands Free Press at 9:43 a.m. Monday April 22 that Charles was found alive and well on St. Thomas.

Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD)

Last updated on April 22, 2019

John McCarthy

John McCarthy is primarily known for his investigative reporting on the U.S. Virgin Islands. A series of reports beginning in the 1990's revealed that there was everything from coliform bacteria to Cryptosporidium in locally-bottled St. Croix drinking water, according to a then-unpublished University of the Virgin Islands sampling. Another report, following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, cited a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confidential overview that said that over 40 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands public lives below the poverty line. The Virgin Islands Free Press is the only Caribbean news source to regularly incorporate the findings of U.S. Freedom of Information Act requests. John's articles have appeared in the BVI Beacon, St. Croix Avis, San Juan Star and Virgin Islands Daily News. He is the former news director of WSVI-TV Channel 8 on St. Croix.

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