CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A man who took rent and a security deposit from a tenant on a Main Street property that he did not own is facing fraud-related charges in St. Thomas. Lloyd S. Bergan,…
CHRISTIANSTED — Police said a man used someone else’s credit cards to steal $16,097.00 in furniture from a Peter’s Rest store late last month. Yey Castillo Tejeda, 38, was arrested at 12:57 p.m. Thursday and…
FREDERIKSTED — A man flying in to the St. Croix airport was booked on sex crime charges when he landed, authorities said. Kishsion Thomas, 35, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree unlawful sexual contact and…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The territory is having trouble finding Google co-founder Larry Page to serve him a subpoena for its lawsuit against JP Morgan, court documents show. The USVI government sued JP Morgan Chase in December, accusing…
CHRISTIANSTED — Three South Americans face federal charges tied to smuggling 1,763 pounds of cocaine by sea. Luis Menocal-Mero, alias “Luis Menoscal,” 38, Carlos Anchundia-Mero, 22, and Carlos BaquePincay, 21, were charged with conspiracy to…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Puerto Rican boat captain got nine years in prison for smuggling about 40 pounds of cocaine into St. Thomas. Sammy Monell-Osorio, 31, of San Juan, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man has been convicted of sex trafficking of children after paying another man for sex with a 17-year-old girl. A St. Croix federal court jury found James Phillip, 65, guilty…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A man and a woman remain critically injured after a drive-by shooting near a gas station on Veteran’s Drive late last night. Police were dispatched to Veteran’s Drive on the roadway just…
KINGSHILL — A woman wanted on St. Croix for violating a court order voluntarily surrendered herself to authorities without incident early Tuesday morning. Melanie Osario Navarro, 32, was arrested at 5:00 a.m. and charged with…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man heard the charges against him in federal court for the alleged sexual assault of a female minor. Dante Edison James, 27, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Emile Henderson, III,…