CHS Put On Brief Lockdown During Police Operation In Clifton Hill

KINGSHILL| — The St. Croix Central High School was briefly placed on lockdown today while VIPD officers conducted an operation in the nearby Clifton Hill community.

All students and staff are safe and accounted for. School remains in session, according to the Virgin Islands Department of Education.

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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.