Tag: VIPD Economic Crimes Unit

FREDERIKSTED — For the second time in two months, a St. Croix woman has been charged with cyberstalking after threatening text messages forced a co-worker to resign, authorities said. In the first instance of cyberstalking in early December, the woman was accused of threatening children.

Sharron Lopez, 35 of Louis E. Brown Villas, was arrested at 7:37 p.m. Friday and charged with harassment by written communication, cyber-stalking and cyber-harassment, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

“Lopez is alleged to have harassed a former coworker in January of 2020 by sending multiple threatening text messages using an online text application, causing the co-worker to resign from her position,” VIPD spokesman Toby Derima said.

Bail for Lopez was set at $1,000, which she posted. She was released, pending an advice-of-rights hearing.

When Lopez was arrested in early December, she was charged with using the Internet to harass children, police records indicate.

Police detectives from the VIPD’s Economic Crimes Unit made the arrest of Lopez on Friday night, Derima said.

All individuals listed as arrested or charged with a crime in this news article are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

CHRISTIANSTED — A man who tried to cash a forged check worth at least $2,000 at a St. Croix bank was arrested on Monday, authorities said.

Andrew Thomas, 23 of Carib Villas, was arrested at 1:42 p.m. Monday and charged with grand larceny, identity theft and passing forged bills or notes, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

“Thomas allegedly passed a counterfeit check in the amount of $2,321.27 at Bank of St. Croix using the account information from a business, in which he was not employed,” VIPD spokesman Toby Derima said.

Bail for Thomas was set at $20,000. He posted 10 percent of bail and was released pending an advice-of-rights hearing.

Thomas was arrested by detectives from the VIPD’s Economic Crimes Unit.

News of Thomas’ arrested was posted in a tweet to Twitter at 4:04 a.m. today.

FREDERIKSTED — The Economic Crimes Unit of the VIPD executed an arrest warrant on a St. Croix woman based on fraud-related charges early Thursday morning, authorities said.

Shanica “ChumChum” Prosper, 26, of Paradise Mills, was arrested at 12:07 a.m. Thursday and charged with obtaining money by false pretenses and grand larceny, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

The investigation revealed on August 21 and 22, 2019, Prosper electronically deposited checks into her checking account, according to the VIPD.

On August 29, 2019, she then cashed the previously deposited checks at a local store, police said.

VIPD spokesman Toby Derima explained that Prosper allegedly “used the app on her mobile phone to take a picture of her check to deposit it into her off-island checking account.”

“The check was not voided or anything like that,” Derima said. “A week or so later, she went to a local store with the same check and cashed it. She basically double-dipped. Because the check was not physically voided when she originally deposited the check electronically, it became illegal when she knowingly took the check and cashed it in the store.”

Bail for Prosper was set at $1,000. Prosper posted bail and was released pending an advice-of-rights hearing.

“This is super ghetto,” Prosper wrote on her Facebook profile page above the article that the V.I. Free Free Press published on her arrest.

All individuals listed as arrested or charged with a crime in this article are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.