Help Police Find Missing Minor Essence Turbe On St. Thomas

John McCarthyPosted oninBreaking News, Community Affairs, Police News, St. Thomas News

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police need your help today to find a missing minor on St. Thomas.

Essence Turbe, 15, was last seen wearing a green dress on Wednesday near the Estate Bovoni Apartments in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Turbe is a black female with brown eyes, black hair a slim build and a light brown complexion. She stands 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighs 143 pounds.

Essence is a resident of Oswald Harris Court in Charlotte Amalie East, according to the VIPD.

If see Essence Turbe, or know her whereabouts, you are urged to call 911 or the Juvenile Bureau at 340-715-5541 and 340-626-0759.

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.