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 prison and five years of…
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 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…
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 of 3,175 pounds of cocaine…
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 intent to distribute 75 kilograms…
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 and three firearms, Acting U.S.…
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 she had been deported, Acting…
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, was charged with alien 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 conviction, Taveras faces a maximum…
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 guilty to possession with intent…
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 voyages near Puerto Rico. The…