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

John McCarthyPosted oninAt VIFreep, Breaking News, Community Affairs, Police News, St. Thomas News

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.

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.