Help Cops Find Chad Collins Wanted For Assault and Battery on St. Croix

CHRISTIANSTED — Police need your help today to find a wanted man on St. Croix.

Chad M. Collins, 41, is wanted for simple assault and battery-domestic violence, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Collins is a white male with blue eyes, a light complexion and hair in a long gray ponytail. He stands 5-feet, 9-inches tall and his weight is unknown.

Some distinguishing features Collins has are that he is missing several teeth, according to the VIPD.

Collins is known to frequent the Mount Pellier, Princess Condos, Christiansted town, Morningstar and Christiansted harbor areas of St. Croix.

The suspect owns a boat called “Irish Eyes” and is frequently on it.

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.