Help cops find Tiffany Mendez wanted for domestic violence in St. Croix

CHRISTIANSTED —  Police need your help to find a woman wanted in connection to an act of domestic violence on St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Police Department said on Facebook.

Tiffany Mendez, 42, is wanted on a charge of destruction of property-domestic violence, according to the VIPD.

Mendez is a black female with brown eyes, black hair and a brown complexion. She stands 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds.

The suspect has some distinguishing marks, such as tattoos on her left neck, left chest and right upper arm, police said.

Mendez is known to frequent the Orange Grove, La Grande Princess and Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion areas of St. Croix, according to police.

If you see Tiffany Mendez, or know her whereabouts, you are urged to call 911 or make contact with Police officer J. Divine at the Wilbur Francis Command 340-778-2211. If you know the whereabouts, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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.