Crime News – Page 450 – Virgin Islands Free Press

Gubernatorial Candidate Warren Mosler Charges ‘Serious’ Crime Committed With Misapplied GERS Deductions

CHRISTIANSTED -- A 2018 gubernatorial candidate is calling for "justice" in connection with the Virgin Islands government taking money out of payroll checks for the Government Employees Retirement System (GERS)…

John McCarthy April 19, 2018

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Dominican and Haitian Could Get Five Years For Sending 2.2 Pounds of Cocaine Through Mail

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A Dominican man and a Haitian man admitted in federal court today that they arranged to pick up cocaine that they sent through the U.S. mail to…

John McCarthy April 18, 2018

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St. Thomas Man Rehelio Trant With History Of Brandishing Guns … Faces 10 Years In Prison After Conviction

CHARLOTTE AMALIE -- After a two-day trial, a federal jury found a St. Thomas man guilty of illegal gun charges. Rehelio Trant, 39, of Estate Contant, is guilty of possession…

John McCarthy April 18, 2018

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Repeat offender Kareem Harrigan gets just 1 year from limp-wristed judge after gun crime conviction

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man was sentenced today to a year behind bars because he pleaded guilty to a gun crime that occurred in August, the Virgin Islands…

John McCarthy April 17, 2018

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St. Croix Prison Guard Darren Giddings Arrested for Taking Ganja Into Golden Grove

ARRESTED: Bureau of Corrections officer Darren Giddings, 35, by the VIPD on Thursday. [ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] FREDERIKSTED -- A St. Croix prison guard has been arrested at Golden…

John McCarthy April 15, 2018

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Puerto Rico To Send Its Inmates To United States … Out of ‘Archaic’ Island Prisons

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] SAN JUAN -- Bankrupt Puerto Rico plans to save money by closing as many as a third of its jails and shipping its inmates to…

John McCarthy April 14, 2018

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St. Croix Baggage Handler Gets Two Years In Prison For Strapping Cocaine To His Body

CHRISTIANSTED – A St. Croix man was given two years in prison by a federal judge for trying to smuggle cocaine onto an airplane. Dimitrous Jefferson, 29, of Mon Bijou,…

John McCarthy April 12, 2018

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California Man Who Admitted To Bringing Two Kilos of Marijuana To St. Thomas Faces Five Years in Prison

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A California man admitted in federal court to trying to smuggle 4.4 pounds of marijuana into the territory. Kelley "Slim" Hansen, 28,…

John McCarthy April 12, 2018

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POLICE: Gun Found on Dominica’s Lester Charles After Lindbergh Bay Fight

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A fight between two men led to the discovery of an illegal gun earlier this month, a police source said. Six days…

John McCarthy April 11, 2018

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Robert White, 56, Drowns While Swimming Off The Frederiksted Pier on Monday

[ad name="HTML-68"] [wpedon id="23995" align="left"] FREDERIKSTED -- The brother of a Virgin Islands Police Department officer drowned while swimming near the Frederiksted Pier 0n St. Croix, authorities said. At about…

John McCarthy April 10, 2018