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Over 82 shots fired during St Croix shooting; 3 Injured
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — A shooting incident in Castle Coakley, St Croix, Us Virgin Islands (USVI) today, January 19, 2020, left three people injured, with gunmen discharging upwards of 82 shots, according to [US] Virgin Islands Police Department [VIPD] shell casing markers on the crime scene.
Police HQ stuck above RiteWay Pasea until March
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Commissioner of Police, Mr Michael B. Matthews says the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) will be spending another few months above the bakery at the Riteway Food Markets location in Pasea Estate, after a failed bid to move in December 2019.
RVIPF cracking down on motorbike offenders, illegal ATVs
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is cracking down on the illegal use of motorcycles and other type of vehicles such as the ‘All Terrain Vehicles’ (ATV’s) following an increasing amount of complaints over the illegal use such in the Virgin Islands (VI).
Man shot dead outside bakery in broad daylight
VI CONSORTIUM
ST. CROIX, USVI — A young man was shot to death outside the Thomas Bakery in Castle Coakley near Sunny Isle, the USVIPD has confirmed to the Consortium.
'There needs to be separate test to licence bigger bikes' - CoP Matthews
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Reiterating his calls for safer roads before bigger bikes, Commissioner of Police, Michael B. Matthews says robust requirements are needed with the introduction of bigger CC motorcycles in the territory.
2 arrested in USVI for deadly counterfeit Fentanyl Pill; 4 deaths on St Croix
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- On November 4, 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned the public about fatal victims overdosing on dangerous counterfeit pills in the United States.
Georgia set to execute man convicted of killing store clerk
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA, Georgia, USA — Corrections officials in Georgia are preparing to execute a man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk more than 30 years ago.
Ceasar killers were looking for another man- Court hears
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In her first murder case since taking up the post of Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Tiffany R. Scatliffe-Esprit revealed that murder accused, St Kitts national Andraes Norford, and three other men were searching for another individual on the ill-fated day of September 10, 2017, when Hispanic businessman Julio Pineda Ceasar was fatally shot at his residence in East End.
USVI Gov’t files lawsuit against $577M estate of Jeffery E. Epstein
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- Pedophile Jeffrey E. Epstein used a web of shell companies, charitable organisations and other corporate entities to conceal years of rape, human trafficking and other abuses of women and young females on Little St James and Great St James off the east coast of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI), the [US] Virgin Islands Department of Justice (VIDOJ) has alleged in a civil lawsuit.
UPDATE: Murder accused Andraes Norford had escaped HMP after Irma
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Andraes Norford, the St Kitts national charged for the murder of a man days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the Virgin Islands had escaped Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) following the hurricane and allegedly used the opportunity to commit the heinous act.
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