CHRISTIANSTED — Alert police on patrol in the Gallows Bay area arrested a wanted 20-year-old St. Croix man who allegedly had two illegal guns in his possession — one of them the same type of semi-automatic weapon used by the U.S. Secret Service to protect President Trump. Jiovoni Smith of

CHRISTIANSTED — Senator Kenneth Gittens said that a local program to aggressively fight white collar crime would most likely pay for itself. “When we go after crimes like fraud, corruption and tax evasion it often means we also curtail losses to the Government or even gain new revenue,” Senator Gittens

FREDERIKSTED — Two people — including the child’s biological mother — have been arrested on child neglect charges after a “badly abused” four-year-old boy was found dead on a bathroom floor in Grove Place on Friday. Delicia Daniel, 29, of Grove Place and Kyle Christopher, 22, were each arrested Friday and

KINGSHILL — U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George on Friday announced the arrest of Massachusetts native Daniel Cove. Cove, 36, a registered sex offender was apprehended by Superior Court Marshals at the Village Rehabilitation Center in Sion Hill on Thursday. He was arrested on a warrant, for failing to

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Police Department patrol officers from the Richard N. Callwood Command responded to 911 Emergency Call Center that directed officers to the Bonne Esperance area in reference to a dispute between neighbors about 12:07 p.m. Saturday. Malakai George, 33, of Bonne Esperance was arrested and charged

CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix son whose mother told authorities she found a gun in his backpack after she dropped him off for a Superior Court appearance got three years in prison on Thursday. Serjio Alexander Rijo-Feliz, 27, of St. Croix, was sentenced to 36 months of incarceration for possession of a

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Florida man repairing hurricane-damaged property for the Virgin Islands Port Authority in St. Thomas discovered blank marine revenue checks in a filing cabinet and hand-wrote at least $93,000 in checks to himself and co-workers. Alain Rodriguez Rionda, 39, of Miami was arrested on a Superior Court

FREDERIKSTED — A St. Croix man threatened to kill himself after being jilted by his lover, but he first damaged items in the apartment and then took what he thought was a lethal dose of “painkillers” and went to sleep on the premises, authorities said. Carlos Garcia, 47, of Mount

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — An 18-year-old St. Thomas man has been charged in the rape of a minor, authorities said. Marciano Rivera was arrested about 7 p.m. Thursday and charged with first-degree aggravated rape, first-degree unlawful sexual contact and child abuse of a minor, the Virgin Islands Police Department said. Marciano

FREDERIKSTED — A woman who tried to stop a St. Croix man from beating another woman — was beaten for her trouble. And a male judge on Superior Court of the Virgin Islands said to the man who allegedly beat the two women: “You are free to go!” Horace Magras