[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] CHRISTIANSTED — An eight-year-old girl drowned in a downtown hotel pool while attending a birthday party on the waterfront, according to the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD). On June 25, police with the C Command Unit in Christiansted were dispatched at 11:17 a.m. at the King Christian

Police  along with the forensic unit were dispatched to the scene and found spent casings and a vehicle with exit bullet holes on its front windshield. The incident is being investigated by the Criminal Investigation Bureau. Anyone with information about the incident can all the Criminal Investigation Bureau at (340) 712-6031, 911

         ACCUSED: Thomas Troy Bitter CHARLOTTE AMALIE – Ever get so mad you wanted to call someone up and tell them exactly what you thought of them? It’s probably smartest to hang up before you do, but that advice must have slipped past Thomas Troy Bitter of Mission Viejo, California.

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police said that a 42-year-old St. Thomas man was found “down” and dead early Monday morning, but did not indicate how he died. On June 20, 2016 at approximately 5:44 a.m., the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of a man down in the area of Tutu

             Gov. Kenneth Mapp CHRISTIANSTED —  Governor Kenneth Mapp submitted a proposed bill on Friday to the Legislature that would provide for the speedy trial of persons charged with criminal offenses in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mapp said that the measure titled the “Virgin Islands Speedy Trial Act” is intended to

WANTED: Nathaniel Thomas Jr. FREDERIKSTED – Police are asking for your help to locate a 27-year-old St. Croix man who is wanted for questioning in a case of reckless endangerment near a gas station. Nathaniel “Jahreek” Thomas Jr. has an outstanding warrant out for him dating back to an incident

    Bert A. Donadelle of Atlanta CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 26-year-old Georgian man pleaded guilty to drug charges after admitting to trying to smuggle nearly 19 pounds of marijuana into the territory, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Bert Donadelle, Jr. of Atlanta pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on St.

T&T National Security Minister Edmund Dillon PORT OF SPAIN — The mass shooting in Orlando which left some 49 dead, is not only a threat to the United States but the larger Caribbean as well, according to Trinidad’s national security minister. Fully 23 of the 49 people slaughtered by a terrorist at a

CHRISTIANSTED – After a six-day trial, on June 8, 2016, a federal jury convicted a 37-year-old St. Croix man of attempted bank robbery, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Damian Lang, Sr. was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Ronald Sharpe said.

            MURDERED: Chanel Petro Nixon  NEW YORK  — A man being held in a St. Vincent and the Grenadines jail has been arrested in connection with the 2006 murder of a 16-year-old Brooklyn girl, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. The victim, Chanel Petro Nixon, vanished on Father’s Day 2006. Her body