ARRESTED: Richard Ireland CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man who police said shot and stabbed his ex-girlfriend when he saw her at a local gas station was arrested on Thursday after he turned himself to authorities. Richard “Frankie” Ireland, 52, of Altona, faces charges of first-degree assault, third-degree assault,

CHRISTIANSTED — As first reported in the Virgin Islands Free Press, the Bank of St. Croix in Peter’s Rest was held up by a lone gunman early Thursday morning who was captured by police less than a mile away from the site of the robbery about 11 minutes later. Official

CHRISTIANSTED — Police on St. Croix arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with a bank robbery in Peter’s Rest this morning. Adam Mason was arrested on a charge of first-degree robbery. According to a press release, officers took Mason into custody approximately 11 minutes after the robbery was first reported

SANTO DOMINGO — The discovery of a dismembered body of a woman this week in the Dominican Republic has put the spotlight on high levels of femicides in a country where one woman has been killed every two days in June alone. The victim was Dominga Bautista Lora, 35, whose

ARRESTED: Syed Zain Gilani at the Boston offices of Safr in Massachusetts on Friday afternoon. BOSTON — The attorney for the man accused of being the mastermind of a five-year $2 million scam that allegedly defrauded the Virgin Islands government of Real ID funds says that his arrests on territorial

ACCUSED OF OFFICIAL CORRUPTION BY V.I. ATTORNEY GENERAL WALKER: Jerris Browne CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Department of Justice said Monday that it has filed public corruption charges against two former Bureau of Motor Vehicles officials and a local business owner, in relation to issues connected to the implementation

The Virgin Islands public has been informed that there were recent arrests of three individuals on corruption charges involving the alleged misuse of over $2 million in federal funds associated with the REAL ID program. The individuals arrested, of course, will have their day in court and are entitled to

ARRESTED IN FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA: Hubert “Blackest” Lee, Jr. FAYETTEVILLE — Federal authorities successfully closed in on East End carjacking-rape suspect Hubert Lee Jr. on Monday. Lee, 22, was captured by U.S. Marshals in North Carolina and taken into custody based on a bench warrant issued by the Superior Court

DIRTY BUSINESS: A 2015 Newsweek article told the detailed account of an undercover sting operation in the Dominican Republic; a former CIA agent and United States diplomat, posed with an undercover team as tourists looking to buy sex with children in the northern beach town of Sosúa. SANTO DOMINGO —

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police said a St. Thomas man was shot to death in his car on Saturday afternoon. Jahkima Moore, 32, was killed Saturday afternoon in a fatal drive-by shooting on Scott Free Road, the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) said. According to the police, at 5:54 p.m. Saturday