WILLEMSTAD — Four U.S. Air Force planes will be deployed to Curacao for counter-narcotics operations, the U.S. Southern Command announced on Friday. An E-3 Sentry surveillance plane and an E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Lemon Strade man who has allegedly been stalking and harassing a St. Thomas woman since December 2019 was arrested by police on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Justin Matthews, 22, of Lemon…
CHRISTIANSTED — St. Croix men jumped out of an SUV with no license plate and opened fire on people standing in the parking lot of a Peter’s Rest-area supermarket late Friday night, authorities said. No…
FREDERIKSTED — An informant tipped off police that a St. Croix man had an unlicensed gun and ammunition in a Five Corners-area nightclub on Thursday night, authorities said. Rashawn Ryner, 21, of Upper Love was arrested…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The Virgin Islands Police Department completed its Fiscal Year 2021 budget hearing today. Commissioner Trevor Velinor and his leadership team defended the budget of $62,039,293 to fund the department for next fiscal…
FREDERIKSTED — The VIPD Animal Cruelty Investigator received a call from a concerned citizen saying that a stray dog she feeds in Estate Calquohoun was found dead earlier in the morning. The caller, who contacted…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Federal law enforcement agents recently recovered four duffel bags stuffed with $2.25 million in cash out of the waters off of the coast of St. Thomas, authorities said. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs Border Patrol…
CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Croix man is facing illegal weapons charges after an informant tipped off police that he was in possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition, authorities said. Bernard Hodge, 29, of Estate…
CHRISTIANSTED — St. Croix attorney Andrew Simpson has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers at the Academy’s recent meeting in April 2020. He is the first person from the…
CHRISTIANSTED — An Arizona man who tried to smuggle nearly 24 pounds of marijuana to St. Croix in his luggage in last month was arrested by federal agents over the weekend, authorities said. United States…