CHRISTIANSTED – A man once called the “kingpin” of drugs in the U.S. Virgin Islands has admitted to his role in a federal crack cocaine case. Robert Klyvert, 47, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Cannon, Jr. to distribution of crack cocaine on January 18, according to U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert. Yesterday, Nolly […]
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ICE: Five-Day Sweep of New York Yields 118 Illegal Caribbean Migrants
NEW YORK — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it has detained a number of Caribbean nationals among 118 immigrants during a five-day exercise in several areas of New York. It said during the January 14-18 exercise, law enforcement officials apprehended the immigrants for violating U.S. immigration laws, as well as being […]
U.S. Coast Guard Seizes $10 Million Worth of Cocaine Off Puerto Rico’s North Coast
SAN JUAN — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol and Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) Joint Forces for Rapid Action (FURA) agents seized 884 pounds (401 kilos) of cocaine found inside an abandoned vessel on the coast of the town of Loiza on Monday. The estimated value of the seized narcotics is $10 […]
Florida Man Charged With Taking Kickbacks From $1.7 Million Federal Contract
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A Florida man was charged today with fraud in connection with a kickback scheme involving federal government contracts. David Wikel, 65, of West Palm Beach, was charged with providing kickbacks in connection with the $1.7 million dollar federal government subcontract to retrofit the roof of the Ron de Lugo Federal Building in […]
New Customs Building Set To Be Completed on St. John By November of This Year
CRUZ BAY — The Virgin Islands Port Authority will begin construction of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) building at the Victor Sewer Marine Facility (“The Creek”) in St. John on February 1. Construction is expected to be completed by November 2019. The old building was destroyed during Hurricane Irma in September 2017. […]
Coast Guard Captures 29 Dominicans Trying To Come To United States Illegally
SAN JUAN — The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Puerto Rican law enforcement took 29 people from the Dominican Republic into custody Tuesday who were trying to enter the United States illegally, according to a Coast Guard press release. Two of the men are being investigated for possibly trying to […]
British Royal Navy Assists U.S. Coast Guard With Drug Interdiction in Caribbean
WILLEMSTAD — The British Royal Navy support ship RFA Mounts Bay has joined forces with specialist U.S. take-down teams from the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), in order to combat drug smuggling in the Caribbean. USCG drug enforcement experts have been deployed to stop illegal narcotics produced in South and Central America from reaching the United […]
Feds Say Paul ‘Bogus’ Girard Heads Up Organized Crime in Territory … Is Indicted
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – Paul “Bogus” Girard and ten members of his criminal organization on St. Croix were indicted Thursday under the provisions of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by a federal grand jury sitting in St. Thomas. A new 47-count indictment unsealed in U.S. District […]
Puerto Rico Police Officer Takes 30 People Hostage In Credit Union
GUAYNABO — The Puerto Rico Police Department said Wednesday that a hostage situation at noon Wednesday at the Caribbean Federal Credit Union Cooperative in Guaynabo ended without any injuries. According to preliminary information, a Puerto Rico Police Department officer, Gabriel Hernández Jiménez, who is assigned to the Bayamón Highway Patrol Division, held a maintenance employee […]
Virgin Islands Consent Decree Lifted By Feds Under VIPD’s Delroy Richards Sr.
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The United States Justice Department said today that the federal district court for the District of the Virgin Islands yesterday found the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) in substantial compliance with a consent decree relating to VIPD’s use of force practices. The consent decree requires VIPD to now maintain compliance for a […]