VIPD Needs Your Help To Find Missing Woman Jamequa Kuntz On St. Thomas

John McCarthyPosted oninAt VIFreep, Breaking News, Crime News, Police News, St. Thomas News

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Police Department is asking for the community’s help in finding Jamequa Kuntz.

Kuntz, 22, of Hospital Ground was reported missing by family members yesterday.

Police described Kuntz as a black female with a brown complexion who stands 5-feet-6 inches tall and weighs about 225 pounds.

She was last seen in the H.H. Bergs Home and Additions area of Hospital Ground wearing a colorful dress and white slippers.

Kuntz is known to frequent the Hospital Ground and Smith Bay areas of St. Thomas, according to the VIPD.

Anyone with information about the missing woman is asked to contact 911, the Criminal Investigation Bureau at (340) 774-2211 extension 5569, or the paying anonymous tip line Crime Stoppers USVI at (800) 222-TIPS (8477).

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.