Crime
UPDATE: Backtracking Juror in Fahie's trial sticks with guilty verdict
MIAMI, Florida, USA - Today, March 7, 2024, both prosecutors and defense Attorneys appeared in a Miami Federal Court before Judge Kathleen M. Williams over the matter of two of Andrew A. Fahie’s jurors who had changed their guilty verdict post-trial.
UPDATE: 60 bales of cocaine seized following boat chase- RVIPF
EAST END, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has said the joint operation between the US Virgin Islands and local authorities last night, March 5, 2024, has resulted in the most substantial sea seizure to date, as some 60 bales of cocaine were seized.
St Vincent deports suspects in murder of a US sailing couple
LOOP NEWS
Three men from Grenada suspected in the disappearance of a US couple whose catamaran was hijacked were ordered deported from St Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday.
USVI: Man arrested after allegedly raping his sister
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- One man in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) is facing felony rape charges after his sister accused him of forcing her to drink until she became ill, and then raping her on the floor of their mother’s bathroom.
Arrests made as probe into Aladdin robbery & CGB shooting continues
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following investigations into the recent shooting incident in Cane Garden Bay on February 4, and the robbery at Aladdin Store on Flemming Street, Road Town on February 9, officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) conducted a targeted early morning operation resulting in the apprehension of multiple individuals today, February 27, 2024.
Vincy man arrested in USVI for smuggling humans from Tortola to St John
CRUZ BAY, ST John, USVI- A St Vincent and The Grenadines national has been arrested by border patrol authorities in the US Virgin Islands and placed before the court for attempting to smuggle people into St John, US Virgin Islands from Tortola, [British] Virgin Islands.
Sentencing of Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard further pushed to March 28, 2024
MIAMI, Florida, USA- The sentencing of former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, who had struck a plea deal with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has been pushed back again- this time to March 28, 2024.
3 arrested following high-speed chase with police in EE
PARHAM TOWN, Tortola, VI- Information reaching our News Centre is that three males have been arrested following a high-speed chase with police in the East End area this morning, Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
Aladdin robbers' vehicle reportedly had licence plate taken from unused car
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Information reaching our newsroom is that one of the licence plates found on the getaway car used by the armed robbers who carried out a daring daylight heist on Aladdin Jewellery Store on Fleming Street on February 9, 2024, was taken from an unused vehicle.
California man allegedly threatened to kill postal workers in USVI
VI CONSORTIUM
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— Simon Peters, a 41-year-old man from Valley Center, California, has been formally charged with making threats to kill postal workers in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI), announced United States Attorney Delia L. Smith on Thursday, February 15, 2024.