CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A native of the Dominican Republic was given two years in prison today by a federal judge for firing off his gun in a crowded downtown area of St. Thomas. Cristian Lopez-Moncion,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A former St. Croix postal worker was given three years in prison by a federal judge on St. Thomas today for mailing at least 308 pounds of marijuana. Stephen Bernier, 53, of…
WASHINGTON — Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett’s former legal counsel will spend at least a year in prison for sharing private, nude images and videos of her and her spouse online. Judge John D. Bates…
ARRESTED: JELANI MARCUS HALL [ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED — Police arrested a St. Croix man on charges related to sexually assaulting two female minors on multiple occasions. Jelani Marcus Hall, 28, was arrested…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED — A Dallas woman is free on bond today after federal authorities said she had at least 20 pounds of marijuana in her carry-on luggage. Kieantia Thomas-Okeke of Texas…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] ROAD TOWN, Tortola — The British Virgin Islands has experienced six earthquakes in the last 24 hours; 12 earthquakes in the past seven days; 34 earthquakes in the last 30…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] FREDERIKSTED — St. Croix’s Anguilla landfill was on fire again this morning. St. Croix Sen. Novelle Francis Jr., a former St. Croix police chief, weighed in on the “active fire”…
WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai today proposed directing $954 million toward restoring and expanding communications networks in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico heavily damaged during the 2017 hurricane season. In…
[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — An earthquake registering 4.5 on the Richter Scale struck the ocean floor 69 miles north of Culebra, Puerto Rico this afternoon. According to the U.S. Geological Survey…
MIAMI — Cruise lines have never had a cleanliness problem this big. In 2017, cruise lines failed their sanitation inspections at the highest rate ever since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s Vessel Sanitation Program started…