SAN JUAN – The U.S. Coast Guard seized 1.4 tons of cocaine and arrested five Honduran men aboard a boat intercepted 34 miles northwest of Aruba, the office of the U.S. attorney in San Juan said this week. The joint operation with the Justice Department’s Caribbean Corridor Task Force took

  CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A New Jersey killer who was 16 years old when he gunned down a St. Thomas man in 2012 was sentenced to a decade in prison for aggravated manslaughter today. “At 16 years of age you gunned down a man for no reason whatsoever,” Hudson County Superior Court Judge

ST. CROIX – An 18-year-old Christiansted town man was arrested on an illegal gun possession charge after a routine traffic stop yesterday, according to the Virgin Islands Police Department. Duval Briscoe of Queen Street was arrested at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday and charged with possession of an unauthorized firearm, the VIPD said.

CHRISTIANSTED – A 30-year-old Estate Work and Rest man turned himself in to police yesterday after learning that an arrest warrant had been issued for him, according to the Virgin Islands Police Department. Adam Mason surrendered to police at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after a search and arrest warrant was issued

                               George Ward ATLANTA – The family of a 29-year-old St. Thomas man who died during basic training to join the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office served notice that it plans to sue for “$10 million,” The Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. George Ward’s family contends that sheriff’s deputies tried

                             Tyquill Armstrong JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — A city man who was only 16 years old when he fatally shot a 21-year-old man in 2012 will face up to 10 years in prison when sentenced tomorrow for aggravated manslaughter, officials said today. Tyquill Armstrong, now 19, was arrested on

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, BVI – Two Israelis indicted in the U.S. and facing extradition for allegedly using fake passports and identities and running a “pump and dump” securities fraud scheme that made millions were ordered kept in custody for twenty days by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court today, due to fear

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The Virgin Islands Police Department announced the arrests of three people on St. Thomas last week in a prepared statement released late Monday afternoon. Here are the incidents that were reported, according to the VIPD: On Thursday, July 16 at 1 p.m., units with the Criminal Investigation

FREDERIKSTED – A 25-year-old Estate Castle Burke man was arrested late Saturday night on an illegal weapons possession charge, according to police. William Libert was arrested at 11:35 p.m. on July 18 and charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, police said. According to the police report, Libert had been

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The body of an unidentified Hispanic male was discovered in Estate Bordeaux, St. Thomas after 8 a.m. today, according to police. Officers discovered the victim after responding to a report from a concerned citizen of a dead body in the area when they discovered the victim who