CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man was given 15 years in prison after being convicted of carjacking, using a firearm during a violent crime and felony possession of a firearm, authorities said.
Luis Davis, 34, of St. Croix, was sentenced to 186 months of incarceration by U.S. District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis, after being convicted of carjacking, using a firearm during a violent crime and felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Lewis also sentenced Davis to five years of supervised release, a fine of $1,000.00, a special assessment of $300.00 and $1,600.00 in restitution.
According to court documents, in the early morning hours of September 10, 2017, Davis, along with two assailants, broke into a couple’s home in Estate Rust Op Twist while brandishing a firearm.
The group physically assaulted the male victim by punching him in the head and threatened to kill the couple while demanding money. At gunpoint, Davis and his assailants forced the couple into the rear passenger seat of their Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck and drove to the shoreline location where the male victim had left his wallet.
After retrieving the wallet, Davis and his assailants fled in the Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck and a Jeep Wrangler. In addition to the vehicles, Davis stole $200.00 cash, two iPhones valued at $600 each and an iPad valued at $200.00.
In 2011, Davis was convicted of first degree assault in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands.
This case was investigated by the Virgin Islands Police Department and the Federal Bureau
of Investigations and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel H. Huston.
This case is part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative. Project Safe
Neighborhoods is a nationwide initiative that brings together federal, state, local and tribal law
enforcement officials, prosecutors, and community leaders to identify the most pressing violent
crime problems in a community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. For more
information on the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods, please see:
https://www.justice.gov/psn