KINGSHILL — Superior Court Magistrate Judge Yolan C. Brow-Ross is scheduled to see two defendants in her courtroom in Estate Kingshill on St. Croix this morning:
Malachi Thompson, 21, of St. Croix, is scheduled for a series of status hearings on domestic violence assault charges, including second-degree assault, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
Shalom Fenton, of St. Croix, is scheduled for an advice-of-rights hearing after his arrest on an assault charge, court records show, specifically Title 14, Chapter 13, Section 296 of the U.S. Virgin Islands Code, the crime described is Assault in the second degree, which involves willfully poisoning food/water, strangling someone in domestic violence, or placing corrosive/injurious substances on another person with intent to injure or disfigure. The assault charge is a crime of domestic violence, specifically Title 16 Virgin Islands Code section 91(b) which does not define a single specific crime itself, but rather provides a definition of “domestic violence” by listing various underlying criminal acts that fall under that designation when committed against a protected person.