St. Croix’s Horace Magras Jr. Wanted On Assault and Battery Charges: VIPD

CHRISTIANSTED — Police are looking for a St. Croix man wanted for questioning in an assault and battery case, authorities said.

Horace Magras Jr., 37, is wanted to answer charges of two counts of simple assault and battery, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Magras was described by the VIPD as being a black man with brown skin, a medium build, low haircut and brown eyes and a light complexion. He stands 6-feet, 1-inches tall and weighs about 196 pounds.

Magras is known to frequent the Catherine’s Rest and La Grande Princesse areas of St. Croix.

If you see Horace Magras Jr. you are asked to please call 911, the CIB at 340 778-2211 or the anonymous tip line Crimestoppers USVI at 1-800-222-8477

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.