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USVI man sentenced to 45 years for raping 12 & 16- year-olds
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Gilroy D. Elcock, 47, of St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) was sentenced Tuesday, September 10, 2019 for six counts of production of child pornography, two counts of aggravated first-degree rape, and one count of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
Kittitian who overstayed 1 yr, 8 mths said he couldn't find a 'sponsor'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A St Kitts national, who unlawfully remained for one year and eight months in the territory and used an alias to police, was fined $1,350 and ordered to spend four months at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP).
USVI resident sentenced for failing to register as sex offender
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — Jeffrey Cole, 57, of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI), was sentenced on Monday August 5, 2019 on his conviction for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
Vincy man who knifed Jamaican wife to death jailed for 6 ½ years
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- St Vincent national Lennox F. Da Silva aka ‘Ocho’, who knifed his Jamaican wife, Sherika Nelson- Da Silva, to death at their apartment in Greenland, Tortola, on June 10, 2017 was on July 12, 2019 sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.
8 years jail for Trini man who raped friend’s stepdaughter
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Security guard Andre Stedman, the 56-year-old Trinidadian accused of raping his friend’s stepdaughter about two years ago, has been sentenced to 8 years imprisonment at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut, Tortola.
Guyanese ‘model’ who faked HIV results to spend 9 months in jail
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A Guyanese woman who had hired a man to obtain an HIV test in her name after arriving in the Virgin Islands in April 2019 has been sentenced to nine (9) months in jail.
Prominent VI lawyer’s son gets 10 years in jail for rape
MANHATTAN, New York, USA- 23-year-old George Fay, whose father is a well-known figure in the judicial system in the Virgin Islands, was sentenced on Tuesday April 17, 2018 to 10 years in prison for raping a sleeping woman in an Upper East Side, New York apartment.
St John man sentenced to 10 years for biting piece of man’s ear off
VI CONSORTIUM
CRUZ BAY, St John, USVI- Ten years in prison was the sentence US Virgin Islands (USVI) Superior Court Judge Kathleen Mackay on Tuesday March 22, 2018 handed down on Emanuel Greer of Calabash Boom, St John, for an ear-biting incident that occurred a little less than two years ago, USVI Department of Justice Public Media Officer Corliss Smithen has announced.
‘Masa’ Pemberton sentenced to 2 years in jail; 3-year suspended sentence
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI - Radio and social network personality Ramoamasagana ‘Masa’ Pemberton has been sentenced to two years behind bars for gun and ammunition charges, after he was found guilty earlier this year.
9 years in jail for Matthew D. Hazell
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After being found guilty on March 31, 2017 of attempted murder, attempted robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, Matthew D. Hazell was today, May 15, 2017 sentenced to nine years in prison by Justice Nicola P. Byer.