John McCarthy
CRUZ BAY — A St. John man has been arrested after he allegedly heisted a rental car for a joyride last month.
Kassahun Stapleton-Harris, 27, was arrested Tuesday and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
The case began at about 4:34 p.m. Sunday, when patrol units were dispatched to Cool Breeze Jeep Rental located on the North Shore Road in St. John to investigate a stolen vehicle, according to the VIPD.
VIPD mug shot of Kassahun Stapleton-Harris, 27, of St. John
Officers met with a representative of Cool Breeze, who said they saw Kassahun Stapleton-Harris driving one of their rental cars off the lot without permission, VIPD spokeswoman Sakeeda Freeman said.
The complainant also stated that Stapleton-Harris was not financially contracted to remove the vehicle from the car rental parking lot, according to Freeman.
“The vehicle was later recovered on Bordeaux Mountain,” she said.
Stapleton-Harris was arrested by police at 12:05 p.m. Tuesday after confessing to removing a vehicle from the Cool Breeze parking lot on Sunday, Freeman added.
The suspect was booked, processed, and remanded to the custody of the Bureau of Corrections pending an advice-of-rights hearing in Superior Court on St. Thonas.
