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Lisa Rene’s Convicted Killer-Rapist Orlando Hall Loses Late Appeal, Condemned To Die In Indiana In 17 Days
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — A federal prisoner scheduled for execution in just over two weeks for the 1994 kidnapping and murder of a St. Croix teenage girl lost a federal appeal case on Friday. Orlando Cordia Hall, 49, was convicted on multiple charges in the kidnapping, rape and killing of

Arkansas Killer of 16-Year-Old St. Croix Student Lisa Rene Has Execution Date Set
ARLINGTON — A Texas death-row inmate convicted of kidnapping and killing a St. Croix teenager in 1994 has received a federal execution date in November, authorities said. If the state-sanctioned killing of Orlando Hall goes ahead as scheduled, he would be the eighth person executed this year as part of the Trump

Feds Say Nilda Morton Was The ‘Brilliant’ Mastermind of A Rock City Cocaine Ring … But Still Obsesses Over The Size Of Her ‘Ass’
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A native of Anguilla was given eight years in prison by a federal court for masterminding a cocaine and heroin operation that stretched from St. Thomas to Pittsburgh to Cleveland and Detroit. Nilda Morton, 32, of The Valley, Anguilla was sentenced on Thursday to 97 months (8.08

Federal Agent Rappels Down To Judith’s Fancy House And Seizes 20 Kilos of Cocaine
CHRISTIANSTED — Two military-style “black ops” helicopters were used on a successful nighttime drug interdiction operation by the federal government in Judith’s Fancy on January 30, the Virgin Islands Free Press has learned. As one of the helicopters hovered over a house that had been targeted based on months of

Tomolah Foy Indicted On Charges He Sold Crack Cocaine Near Ivanna Eudora Kean High School
KING OF THE SELFIES: Tolomah Foy of St. Thomas will not be able to take pictures of himself if he is sentenced to serve in a federal prison. Foy is accused of selling crack cocaine near a local high school. CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A federal Grand Jury has returned an

Puerto Rican Man Who Brought 156 Pounds Of Coke To St. Croix Gets 3.8 years In Prison
CHRISTIANSTED – A native of Puerto Rico will spend about 3.83 years behind bars after admitting to bringing 156 pounds of cocaine to the waters off of St. Croix. Carmelo Cruz-Velez, 52 of San Juan was sentenced to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with

St. Thomas Native Rhasheel Charles Admits To Trying To Smuggle Nearly Eight Pounds Of Coke From Rock City To Miami
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – A 30-year-old St. Thomas native admitted in federal court to conspiring to smuggle nearly eight pounds of cocaine into the territory. Rhasheel Charles pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Charlotte Amalie to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and possession with the intent

St. Thomas Native Jashawn Bailey Appears In Federal Court On Illegal Weapons Charges
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A 30-year-old St. Thomas native was arrested on illegal weapons charges, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Jashawn Bailey was arrested Friday on a criminal complaint charging him with one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, U.S. Attorney Ronald Sharpe said.

CAREER CRIMINAL: St. Croix’s Shawn McIntosh, Convicted of Burglary in 2012, Admits To Gun Possession in 2017
GUILTY PLEA: Shawn McIntosh CHRISTIANSTED – A 24-year-old St. Croix man admitted in federal court that he was a criminal in possession of a firearm, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Shawn McIntosh pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Golden Rock today to being a felon in possession

WHERE’S THE BEEF? Jamaican Woman Caught At JFK Airport With $70K In Coke In Her Beef Pâtés!
NEW YORK — U.S. law enforcement officials arrested a Jamaican with cocaine in beef pâtés at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this week. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said that officers intercepted Chantal Alecia Bedward on arrival on a flight from Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday. During her