Help Police Find Missing Minor Essance Turbe

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police need your help today to find a missing minor on St. Thomas.

Essance Turbe, 15, was last seen leaving school at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday wearing black pants and a black jacket, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Turbe is a student at Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School in Bovoni. She is a resident of the Estate Bovoni Apartments in St. Thomas.

UPDATE: The VIPD said Turbe was found safe on the morning of January 19.

Essance Turbe was also reported missing by her family last month, when the VIPD spelled her first name as “Essence.”

If you see Turbe you are asked to call 911 or the Juvenile Investigation Bureau at 340-626-0759

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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.