Help cops find Malachi Thompson wanted for domestic violence

FREDERIKSTED —Police need your help to find a man wanted for domestic violence on St. Croix.

Malachi Thompson, 21, of Grove Place, is currently being sought by the Virgin Islands Police Department on a charge of second-degree assault.

Thompson is a Black male with brown eyes, black hair and a brown complexion. He stands 5-feet, 5-inches tall and weighs 110 pounds.

Police said the suspect wears his hair in “short dreadlocks” and has a “slim build.”

Thompson is a crew member of the McDonald’s restaurant in Estate La Reine at mid-island on St. Croix.

He is known to frequent the Lorraine Village Apartments area in Grove Place, St. Croix, according to the VIPD.

If you see Malachi Thompson you are asked to please call 911 immediately or contact Police Officer Jamillia Edwards at 340-712-6063.

If you have information regarding Thompson’s whereabouts, you are urged to contact Crime Stoppers USVI at 1-800-222-8477.

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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.