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Help cops find Coleen Edwards wanted for assault on St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police are asking for your help today to find a woman wanted in connection to an assault on Prindsens Gade in St. Thomas this month. Coleen "Thuggie"…

John McCarthy June 8, 2025

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Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe shot, suspect arrested

BOGOTA (Reuters) — Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe was shot in Bogota on Saturday, according to the government and his party, and local media reported that he was in a local…

John McCarthy June 7, 2025

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Dominican gets 10 years for trafficking 165 pounds of cocaine

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Ery Rivera Palmer, 39, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Friday to 10 years’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute 165 pounds of cocaine…

John McCarthy June 7, 2025

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Abrego Garcia back in US to face charges of helping traffic ‘thousands’ of migrants

WASHINGTON (ABC) — Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been brought back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.…

John McCarthy June 6, 2025

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15-year-old arrested in connection to killing of St. Croix comedian

CHRISTIANSTED – The Virgin Islands Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Bureau swiftly arrested a 15-year-old male minor in connection with the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Jordan Jones on the Christiansted Boardwalk…

John McCarthy June 5, 2025

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St. Croix comedian shot dead on Christiansted boardwalk

CHRISTIANSTED — A popular St. Croix comedian was shot dead on the Christiansted Boardwalk this afternoon, the Virgin Islands Police Department said. Emergency 911 dispatchers got "several calls" starting at…

John McCarthy June 5, 2025

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US Marshals arrest a Dominican man sought in last year’s killing of 4 people

PUNTA CANA (ABC) — The U.S. Marshals Service has arrested a 31-year-old Dominican man suspected in a quadruple homicide in New York in which two of the victims were children,…

John McCarthy June 5, 2025

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Man ‘turns into a beast,’ holds woman captive for two years, prosecutor says. He gets 394 years in prison

It started out as a friendship, but prosecutors allege it quickly turned into a nightmare kidnapping after Ian Edard Kroe held a 74-year-old woman captive in a hotel for two…

John McCarthy June 4, 2025

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The children abducted and sold to be cut into pieces for black magic rituals

The tragic case of Joshlin Smith, a six-year-old whose mother sold her to a self-professed 'healer', has captivated and horrified South Africa. Racquel 'Kelly' Smith, 35, was last week found guilty…

John McCarthy June 3, 2025

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Brazilian national gets 7 months for illegal re-entry

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Joice Iara Costa De Souza, a 28-year-old woman from Brazil, was sentenced on Thursday, May 29, 2025 to seven months imprisonment for illegally reentering the country after…

John McCarthy June 2, 2025