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 on Thursday, June 5, 2025.…
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 12:52 p.m. about “two male…
SAN JUAN — Coast Guard Sector San Juan marine investigators and Incident Management personnel responded to a fire aboard the 75-foot motor yacht Emilia in Fajardo on Wednesday. The vessel fire was successfully extinguished by…
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Citing national security concerns, President Donald Trump on Wednesday banned citizens of 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, from entering the United States and restricted access for citizens of seven other…
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, ages 2 and 4, officials…
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 years, repeatedly raping her and…
SAN BERNARDINO — A Native American Church affiliate in Southern California says a sheriff’s department seized and destroyed “thousands” of psychoactive plants revered as sacred, interfering with members’ religious practices. In a lawsuit against the…
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 of kidnapping and trafficking her…
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 she had been deported, Acting…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Omaily Sanchez Taveras, 36, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on May 30, 2025 to ten months imprisonment for illegally smuggling aliens, Acting United States Attorney Adam F. Sleeper said.…