CHRISTIANSTED — Two women, one an employee of a local pharmacy, conspired to acquire prescription drugs by posing as the person who legitimately had the prescription order, authorities said. Officers from the Virgin Islands Crime Initiative (VICI) unit arrested Kaminah Davis, 29, of Estate St. John and Marissa Schneider, 29,

FREDERIKSTED — A freewheeling St. Croix man who allegedly took a woman’s car for a joyride and then crashed it — was arrested by police this weekend, authorities said. Wayne Sobratti, Jr., 29, of Sion Farm was arrested on Sunday about 3:33 a.m. and charged with unauthorized use of a

CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix handyman was arrested this weekend on charges related to preying on the elderly, authorities said. Officers of the Virgin Islands Police Department’s Special Operations Bureau arrested Eric Tushim, 59, about 9:02 p.m. on Saturday on a warrant for aggravated identity theft, obtaining money by false

CHRISTIANSTED — One Puerto Rican woman and one St. Croix woman were arrested by the VIPD’s Economic Crimes Unit after they allegedly assumed other identities to cash checks worth at least $14,000, authorities said. Sandra L. Madrigal, 42, of Vieques and Michelle M. Mateo, 25, of St. Croix were arrested

CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man who was facing first-degree murder charges for the killing of Terrance Moorehead in 2015 confessed to the crime moments before trial was set to begin in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, authorities said. Menelik Petersen, 25, agreed to the guilty plea in

FREDERIKSTED — Two men implicated in the brutal beating death of a church deacon in 2015 were given murder convictions Wednesday after just 45 minutes of jury deliberations. Enock Justin Cole and Avondale George, Jr. were convicted of murder, assault and robbery charges in connection with the August 17, 2015

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — St. Thomas jurors took less than a day to find three former Schneider Hospital executives guilty of 44 criminal charges, including racketeering and embezzlement of more than $3 million. In the long-awaited retrial of Rodney Miller, Sr., Amos Carty, Jr. and Peter Najawicz were found guilty of

KINGSHILL — Attorney General Denise George announced that Kyle Christopher and Delicia Daniel were arraigned Wednesday in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands on the formal criminal charges in the death of four-year old Aaron Benjamin. The Criminal Information, which is the formal charging document filed by the Attorney

KINGSHILL — Two men and two women are charged with attempted murder in the Cool Out Bar shooting in July, authorities said today. Ana M. Magras, Melanie Adames, Jamarie K. Grigg, and Flavel Magras were arraigned today in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands on formal criminal charges of

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The New York Times Company was forced to sue the U.S. Virgin Islands government in order to get needed documents about one of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s businesses in the territory, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. The fourth-largest newspaper in America sued USVI Lieutenant Governor