ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Crown is ready to commence the trial of 54 year-old Lucien Smith, who is facing alleged drug related charges in connection with one of the Territory’s largest cocaine busts in 2010.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Neil Dabreo, who is allegedly facing gun and ammo possession charges has switched lawyers and has refused to sign the complaints forms, Crown Counsel Leslie Ann Faulkner disclosed this morning, April 25, 2012 in the Magistrate’s Court.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The1,000 grammes of cocaine found in the home of a 26 year-old Johnson’s Ghut apartment yesterday April 18, 2012 was discovered in a dog food box hidden insome clothes in a drawer, Senior Crown Counsel Chrsitilyn Benjamin revealed inthe Magistrate’s Court this morning, April 19, 2012.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The issue of traffic matters causing backlog in the court system was brought to the forefront during the 2012 Standing Finance Committee SFC) deliberations with the disclosure that there were already some 103 traffic cases before the court at the time of the SFC deliberations in February 2012.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Danny Pemberton, who is facing gun and cannabis possession charges, took the stand in his defense last Friday April 13, 2012, and under cross examination by the Crown could not recall his whereabouts during the day February 20, 2010 that led to his arrest.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Senior Magistrate Valerie Stephens has denied bail to Franklyn Malone, a 53 year-old Virgin Islander charged for allegedly threatening to kill his ex-lover, when he reappeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday April 4, 2012.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Alcedo Tyson, who is facing a murder charge, allegedly pumped two bullets into his ex-lover’s body while she was walking with friends in the CSY parking lot in the wee hours of the morning on March 16, 2012.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – This morning March 13, 2012 Senior Magistrate, Valerie Stephens has found sufficient evidence for five alleged drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States for conspiracy to import cocaine to the mainland.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A single mother of two pleaded not guilty to three counts of uttering forged documents which enabled her to allegedly cash approximately $10,000 from two banks last year when she appeared before Magistrate Tamia Richards this morning Friday, March 2, 2012.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A man, who allegedly hit his child mother and an officer over a “dog face” comment via text, is expected to stand trial in the Magistrate’s Court on April 27, 2012.
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