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8 arrested on New Year's Day in USVI for celebratory gunfire
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) proved it was serious about arresting individuals who shot celebratory gunfire into the air on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, arresting a total of eight suspects — four on St Croix and four in the St Thomas-St John District — while detaining a total of sixteen individuals.
USVI man arrested on Internet Pornography charges against minor
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Police officers in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, arrested a 26-year-old St Croix man on multiple internet pornography charges perpetrated against a minor.
USVI woman arrested for cyber stalking & harassment
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Police in the US Virgin Islands on Friday, December 4, 2020, arrested a woman for allegedly creating over 200 telephone numbers through an online text messaging application to threaten and harass several individuals, including minors.
USVI police searching for men who forced cat to smoke marijuana
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) is seeking the community's assistance to identify and locate two men who were seen on video forcing a cat to smoke marijuana, according to police spokesman Toby Derima.
Human skull, bones discovered on USVI beach
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— A local couple discovered a human skull and bones at Coakley Bay on the East End of St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) Thursday morning, September 24, 2020, triggering a number of questions relative to the origin of the finding.
54-year-old USVI woman arrested for having sex with minor
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— Police in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) have arrested a woman after she admitted to having sex with a minor for several months.
USVI police arrest man seen throwing Molotov cocktails @ monument
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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Police on Monday night, June 9, 2020, arrested 19-year-old Taylor Hasson of Grapetree Bay, St Croix, US Virgin Islands, on a Superior Court warrant in connection with the July 2019 incident where at least two men -- one of them Hasson -- were seen on video throwing Molotov cocktails at the Point Udall monument to ignite fires.
USVI police trying to locate homicide suspect Jabaar Mactavious
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) is searching for 29-year-old Jabaar Mactavious in connection with the homicide of Shaq’kil Roberts that occurred on April 16, 2020, in the Tutu area of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI).
USVI Police Department donates protective gear to RVIPF
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Police Department donated much needed protective kits, including body armour, to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) on Friday, May 1, 2020, as a joint collaboration to continue the fight against any potential security threats emanating from the current COVID-19 crisis.
STT man accused of coercing, raping minor on several occasions
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— On Thursday, April 30, 2020, at 8:18pm, police arrested Timothy Brewer, age 32 of Smith Bay, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) and charged him with first-degree rape and unlawful sexual contact after allegedly coercing a female minor to engage in sexual acts on several occasions.