Police Need Your Help To Find Rudisha Barnes Wanted For Assault: VIPD

FREDERIKSTED — Police need your help to find a St. Croix woman wanted in connection to an assault.

Rudisha A. Barnes, 23, is wanted for third-degree assault, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Barnes is a Black female with a brown complexion and brown eyes who stands 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds.

She is known to frequent Lorraine Village Apartments and Mount Pleasant West, police said.

The VIPD issued a wanted poster for Barnes on February 28, 2022.

On social media, Barnes said she attended the St. Croix Educational Complex High School.

If you see Rudisha A. Barnes please call 911 or contact Detective Samir Maldonado of the Criminal
Investigation Bureau (CIB) at (340) 772-2211 Ext. 6125.

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.