PORT-AU-PRINCE — Three Jamaicans are dead and a Bahamian national is in custody in Haiti after a historic drug bust Sunday off the country’s northwest coast led to the seizure of more than 1,000 kilos…
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…
CHRISTIANSTED — Three natives of Ecuador pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges in federal court, authorities said. Luis Menocal-Mero, 41, Carlos Baque-Pincay, 23, and Carlos Anchundia-Mero, 24, admitted their guilt before Magistrate Judge Emile A.…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Caribbean Division, in partnership with the U.S. Virgin Islands HIDTA Prevention Initiative, the Virgin Islands Police Department, the Department of Health, the Overdose Response Strategy, the Centers…
Suspected Central American drug kingpin Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba — a.k.a “Shock” — was arrested while on a lavish European vacation with his family—aided by an unlikely source: his wife’s social media. Grijalba, 43, had…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — In Japan, a prepared dish costs up to $90 a plate, while in the northeastern United States they are worth thousands of dollars a pound, fresh out of the water. But the gross-looking,…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE —A native of Puerto Rico was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for cocaine trafficking. Carlos Gascot Concepcion, 46, was given 55 months of imprisonment after a federal jury found him guilty of…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two men from Ecuador were given 6.5-year prison terms for trafficking cocaine last December, authorities said. Mario Montano Camacho, 41, and Juan Ignacio Reyes Delgado, 48, were each sentenced to 78 months…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE —A St. Thomas man known for doing drug deals openly in the Red Hook area has pleaded guilty to selling cocaine. Niah Henry, 35, of St. Thomas, was sentenced by Chief District Judge…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A Puerto Rican man who smuggled about 60 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. Virgin Islands on a personal watercraft has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. Emmanuel Rodriguez-Rodriguez, 33, of San…