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Puerto Rican jet ski cocaine trafficker gets 10 years

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A Puerto Rican native was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking cocaine using a jet ski. Emanuel Rodriguez-Rodriguez, 34, was ordered to serve121 months in…

John McCarthy July 14, 2025

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Puerto Rican man gets 11 years for cocaine smuggling off St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A 25-year-old Puerto Rican man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for smuggling cocaine near the waters of St. Thomas, according to…

John McCarthy July 3, 2025

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St. Thomas CBP agents aid BVI police in cocaine bust off Virgin Gorda

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents stationed on St. Thomas helped Dutch, French and British law enforcement in an operation last week that resulted in the seizure…

John McCarthy June 27, 2025

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Dominican man gets 10 years for cocaine trafficking

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Yeral Marrero Reynoso, 29, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy to 10 years’ imprisonment for possession with…

John McCarthy June 13, 2025

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Dominican gets 10 years for trafficking 165 pounds of cocaine

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Ery Rivera Palmer, 39, a native of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Friday to 10 years’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute 165 pounds of cocaine…

John McCarthy June 7, 2025

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Brazilian national gets 7 months for illegal re-entry

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Joice Iara Costa De Souza, a 28-year-old woman from Brazil, was sentenced on Thursday, May 29, 2025 to seven months imprisonment for illegally reentering the country after…

John McCarthy June 2, 2025

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BVI boat captain charged with smuggling 3 Haitians, 1 Dominican through St. John

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A British Virgin Islands boat captain has been charged with illegally smuggling four illegal migrants through St. John's waters. Jose Miguel Hodge, 31, of Road Town, Tortola,…

John McCarthy February 27, 2025

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Federal jury convicts Dominican of migrant smuggling

CHARLOTTE AMALIE – After a two-day trial, a federal jury convicted Omaily Sanchez Taveras, 36, of the Dominican Republic, of migrant smuggling, U.S. Attorney Delia L. Smith said. For his…

John McCarthy February 6, 2025

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Dominican cocaine trafficker agrees to minimum 10-year sentence

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A native of the Dominican Republic has agreed to a minimum 10-year sentence for trafficking 175 pounds of cocaine in the territory. Yeral Marrero Reynoso, 28, pleaded…

John McCarthy January 15, 2025

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Coast Guard, CBP, DR Navy intercept 108 migrants near Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN — U.S Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Dominican Republic Navy surface and air units interdicted three vessels carrying 108 migrants during three separate unlawful maritime migration…

John McCarthy December 18, 2024