VIPD Closes Records Bureau On St. Thomas Due 2 ‘Circumstances Beyond Our Control’

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Police Department said that “due to circumstances beyond their control,” the Records Bureau offices on St. Thomas will be closed today, August 4.

The VIPD’s Bureau of Planning, Research, Records and Statistics is located at the Alexander A. Farrelly Justice Complex in Charlotte Amalie.

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause,” VIPD spokesman Toby Derima said.

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John McCarthy

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.