FREDERIKSTED — Virgin Islands Police said that Special Operations Bureau (SOB) officers were on patrol in St. Croix “when a strong odor of marijuana emanated
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Operation Clean Sweep Nets 3 Illegal Gun Arrests In St. Thomas
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Police said that its Special Operations Bureau’s Clean Sweep Task Force made a total of three arrests over the weekend,
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U.S. Virgin Islands Logs Fourth Homicide In January Territory-wide
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The month of January was among the deadliest on record in the Virgin Islands with four homicides recorded. With just three days
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Authorities in Honduras Order Exhumation of Land Activist
TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — Honduran authorities ordered the exhumation of the body of a land defender who died under unclear circumstances near the country’s Caribbean coast.
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‘World’s Policeman’ America Holds 4 Haitian Suspects In Custody On U.S. Mainland
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Four key suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were transferred to the United States for prosecution as the case
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Montana Man Who Posed As Realtor In Order To Get $23,003 Wired To His Account Arrested
CHRISTIANSTED — A Montana man who posed as a real estate agent in order to have $23,000 wired to his bank account for a property
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Oral Christopher Smith Faces 20 Years After Weeklong Trial Finds Him Guilty of Murder
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Superior Court jury found Oral Christopher Smith guilty of murder on Friday, Acting Virgin Islands Attorney General Carol Thomas-Jacobs said. Smith,
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Matthew Hazel Gets 5 Years For Trying To Move 11 Pounds of Cocaine In St. Thomas
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas cocaine dealer got five years in prison for being caught trying to move 11 pounds of coke in the
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Dominica Native Beats Woman After First Blaming Her For His Car Accident
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A native of Dominica faces domestic violence-related assault charges after a woman accused him of assaulting her at her home. Miguel Jno-Baptiste,
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Operation Clean Sweep Nets A Rogues’ Gallery of the Usual Suspects on St. Thomas
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Operation Clean Sweep netted four arrests on Tuesday night, the Virgin Islands Police Department said. Members of the Special Operations Bureau (SOB)
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