CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Local police teamed up with their federal counterparts to make six arrests at a notorious open-air drug market on St. Thomas recently, the Virgin Islands Police Department said. During the month of…
MIAMI — Brendan Paul, the 25-year-old man accused of being Sean “Diddy” Combs’ drug mule, was arrested on Monday on cocaine and marijuana possession charges. According to Rolling Stone, Paul was detained by Miami-Dade police at Opa-Locka Airport…
CHRISTIANSTED — A man from Ecuador was given a sentence of 4.75 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to cocaine smuggling. Carlos Benitez Estupinan, 30, of Quito, was sentenced to 57 months incarceration, followed…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two of three men who pleaded guilty in the Stumpy Bay cocaine trafficking conspiracy were given light sentences by a federal judge. Pedro Juan Ramos-Ramirez, 28, and Gerald Albert Cruz, 27, each…
CHRISTIANSTED — A former Port Authority officer who smuggled at least 27 pounds of cocaine into the St. Croix airport got five years in prison from a federal judge. Wayne Jeffers, 53, of St. Croix,…
MIAMI — A British Virgin Islands premier was acting like the fictitious CIA agent Jason Bourne when he was approached by a Mexican cartel member about using his ports for shipping cocaine to the United…
WASHINGTON — An Indian national pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy that spawned a drug trafficking network which used the dark web to conceal its illicit activities, the U.S. Department of…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A 44-year-old St. Thomas man pleaded guilty in federal court to fentanyl possession charges, authorities said. Tahir Donadelle pleaded to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl when he appeared before U.S. Magistrate…
SAN JUAN — Six people were arrested this week in connection with what federal authorities say was a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in New Hampshire using the U.S. Postal Service. In custody are: Lewistone Baez…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two Puerto Rican men who smuggled $1,680,000 in cash by sea into St. Thomas have been given one year in prison — and forfeited their ill-gotten gains. Jesus Lebron Pinto, 29, and…