ARRESTED: Troy A. Somme Jr. CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man was arrested after a routine traffic stop revealed that he had about a pound of marijuana and a Glock handgun in his car. On February 20, 2017 at about  11:21 p.m., a 26 year Troy A. Somme Jr.

ARRESTED: Emile Brin of St. Croix MID-ISLAND ST. CROIX — Alert police noticed a driver with two different license plates and after conducting a routine traffic stop discovered a gun with ammunition in the car. On February 21, 2017 at about 10:27a.m., police on patrol observed a vehicle with two

    ARRESTED: Romeo Beazer Jr. FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix man who ran a red light and was interviewed by police was found to have an illegal firearm in his SUV. Police from the Special Operations Bureau on patrol observed a vehicle travelling from west to east on the

   ARRESTED: Seijo Rojo-Felix FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix man was arrested after police said he gun butted another man. Sejio Rojo-Felix, 21,  was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after he gun butted one victim and stuck the gun in the neck of a second victim, according to the

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The island of St. Thomas was under siege by criminals on Thursday who tried to shoot someone to death from a car; rape a woman as she went jogging in the most populated area of downtown and rob someone in the waterfront area. On Thursday March 2,

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas woman told police that a man tried to rape her after ambushing her near the old Pump house by the Ron de Lugo Federal Building downtown. The woman went into the Richard Callwood Command about 10:22 p.m. on Thursday and told police that she

CHRISTIANSTED – A Clifton Hill man was given two years in federal prison on Thursday for being a drug user with a Luger. Dwayne Wesselhoft, 29, of St. Croix, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond Finch to 24 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a

CHRISTIANSTED – A Puerto Rican native with a history of drug offenses going back to 2010, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to just five years in prison for bringing at least 191 pounds of cocaine to St. Croix. Gamalier Rohlsen-Arizmendi, 24, of Puerto Rico, was given 63 months

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man was shot in a drive-by shooting and left for dead near a gas station that has been the site of at least one fatal shooting in the last eight months. On Thursday March 2, 2017 about 11:49 pm. CIB Investigators responded to a

CHRISTIANSTED — Two military-style “black ops” helicopters were used on a successful nighttime drug interdiction operation by the federal government in Judith’s Fancy on January 30, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. As one of the helicopters hovered over a house that had been targeted based on months of