CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man awaiting trial for armed robbery in connection to a jewelry store heist pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana charges in U.S. District Court, U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert said today. According to court documents, on December 11, 2020, Tashawn T.A. Warner, 24, was

CRUZ BAY — Police are continuing to investigate the disappearance of Sarm Heslop after she went missing on St. John in March. The 41-year-old British woman was living with her Michigan boyfriend Ryan Bane at the time she vanished. Heslop was last seen having drinks at 420 To Center with Bane on

CRUZ BAY — Police are pressing the boyfriend of a British woman missing from St. John for nearly three months to begin cooperating fully with their investigation. Sarm Heslop’s Michigan boyfriend Ryan Bane has refused to allow police to search his boat, from where he says she disappeared in the early hours of

CHRISTIANSTED — A St. Thomas man who used prison phone calls to steal more than $120,000 from a former doctor and two others by impersonating prominent government officials pleaded guilty today to witness tampering and other federal charges, authorities said. United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that Yamini Potter

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that a federal jury on St. Thomas convicted 29-year-old Leroy Henry, Jr. yesterday of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was acquitted of a second offense of being a felon in possession of ammunition. At the

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas man who stole $300,000 from his businessman father and tried to hide that fact by funneling the money through various bank accounts — admitted his guilt in federal court, authorities said. Lenroy Ravalier Jr., 29, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in U.S. District Court

CRUZ BAY — For the first time ever, British police are assisting the VIPD in the investigation into the disappearance of a 41-year-old woman who went missing from a catamaran in St. John more than three weeks ago. Sarm Heslop vanished from the Siren Song, a 47-foot yacht owned and

CRUZ BAY — The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that officials issued several citations to yacht captain Ryan Bane — including “obstruction of a boarding” — but there is still no sign of British woman Sarm Heslop, who was reported missing from Bane’s vessel on March 8. According to Virgin

CRUZ BAY — The three-ring circus that is the investigation into the disappearance of a British woman got a little more clown-toy-car freakish when the commissioner admitted that police themselves did not contact the Coast Guard when they first found out that Sarm Heslop had vanished on March 8. Police

CRUZ BAY — The FBI is on the case of the disappearance of British national Sarm Heslop in St. John. That’s according to The Independent and The Telegraph newspapers based in London, United Kingdom. The Virgin Islands Police Department told the Virgin Islands Free Press today that it had reached