3RD TIME’S NOT A CHARM: Twice Deported Trinidadian Shows Up In St. Thomas Again

John McCarthyPosted oninAt VIFreep, Breaking News, Crime News, Police News, St. Thomas News, U.S. Department of Justice

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that a Trinidad and Tobago national was sentenced today to 17 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after he was removed.

According to court documents, Allan Browne, 49, presented himself for inspection in April 2021 at
the Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas, USVI, as a ticketed passenger on a flight to Miami, Florida.

Customs and Border Protection officers determined that he was not a citizen of the United States
and had not been granted any documentation to enter or remain in the United States.

The officers also determined that he had been previously removed from the United States on or about October 2020 and September 2014.

Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Juan Albino prosecuted the case.

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.