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Drug bust in progress in East End; Several arrested

East End Police Station. Reports reaching our News Centre indicate that a drug bust is in progress in East End today, June 18, 2025. Photo: VINO/File
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force has confirmed that a joint marine and land-based operation took place overnight on Monday, June 17, 2025, as part of a coordinated operation. Photo: Team of Reporters
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force has confirmed that a joint marine and land-based operation took place overnight on Monday, June 17, 2025, as part of a coordinated operation. Photo: Team of Reporters
EAST END, Tortola, VI - Reports reaching our News Centre indicate that a drug bust is in progress in East End today, June 18, 2025.

According to senior police sources, it’s a joint operation involving officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), Immigration Department, His Majesty's Customs and "external partners".

The RVIPF has since confirmed that a joint marine and land-based operation took place overnight on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, as part of a coordinated operation involving officers and "assets from the Department of Immigration, His Majesty’s Customs and the RVIPF, as well as from other external law enforcement agencies."

Arrests made

A number of persons have been taken into custody in connection with this operation, the RVIPF disclosed in a statement moments ago.

This joint effort, according to the RVIPF, forms part of ongoing multi-agency initiatives to address cross-border criminal activity and safeguard the Territory.

It said the investigation remains active, and further information will be provided in due course.

41 Responses to “Drug bust in progress in East End; Several arrested”

  • Rubber Duck (18/06/2025, 10:15) Like (18) Dislike (62) Reply
    free the weed free the drew
    • l (18/06/2025, 22:41) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ Rubber Duck or any other name they use, every time this fool posts this, don't respond! Small pea brain at work.
  • Brad Boynes (18/06/2025, 11:21) Like (39) Dislike (7) Reply
    Good job. Keep the heat on.
  • thank you (18/06/2025, 11:43) Like (22) Dislike (9) Reply
    Keep up the "GOOD" work
    @Rubber Duck,,,, You are and "Idiot" You shoud be deported.
    • Deported where? (18/06/2025, 12:03) Like (17) Dislike (16) Reply
      Imagine being born and raised here and being told you should be deported? You should be the deporting officer.
      • cheese (18/06/2025, 12:42) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
        Almost happen to me place ain't got no birth rights
      • BuzzBvi (18/06/2025, 13:06) Like (11) Dislike (4) Reply
        El Salvador has spaces we should get an agreement. If the US can send Americans there, why not VI. VI don't need people supporting criminals and criminal behaviour.
      • @Deported Where? (18/06/2025, 13:53) Like (5) Dislike (9) Reply
        Your silly A$$ can be Exiled for your ignorance.
      • Jasper (29/06/2025, 08:41) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Are your parents from here?
  • Lawd (18/06/2025, 11:48) Like (7) Dislike (4) Reply
    Hard times coming boy.
  • Senior native citizen of the British Virgin Islands (18/06/2025, 11:56) Like (4) Dislike (5) Reply
    The root cause of this, and others good-progress-hendering is not being serious enough eing address. Eligal drugs spiking, and other serious crimes will unfortunately continue, until humans comes to to the relization that with repentance from lustful, selfish ambition to community integration under the righteous guidance eyes, and strength of Creator our efforts, as honest as they may hopefully be, will not be sufficient to satisfactory curb the evil passion, and daily corrupted practices of some that are living among us, and their foreign supporters.

    "Let God be true, and every man liar.", by inherited degradation, and personal choices.
    • Dealer (18/06/2025, 13:02) Like (5) Dislike (18) Reply
      There is good evil and evil in good fam, some have no choice but to hit the streets to make a living n feed the family, and even people around them. You don’t know how hard it gets, some been doing it from children and it’s all they know, there is money in this business and they understand it better than you old fools do. Legalise it, let the young set up their business to sell and watch them prosper. You old corrupt n cowardly fools always want a piece, then saying you doing good when you send a man jail because you ain’t getting your piece/bribe all “in the name of good” then have the audacity to mention god in your deeds. There is good in evil and evil in good
      • @Dealer (18/06/2025, 18:26) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
        And there is God’s judgment and hell too. Remember that!
        • Dealer (19/06/2025, 15:07) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
          Gods judgement?? I recommend you stop playing god by judging people as if you are god, you’re basically insinuating that someone will go hell for hustling. listen all I saying is that the life in the street hard, and as long as it stay illegal, it will stay in the street where dogs eat dogs. You people who grow up with spoon in your mouth don’t know the kind of blessing it bring when you get an opportunity to feed from god. God give me this ganja then I will sell it, nuff people out here smoking it. Just like ya cigarette all of you smoking. It’s an untapped business empire and you old fools already let the likes of your slave master monopolise it, say it illegal, then cultivated it now that industry worth billions if not trillions (look at California). Some talk about god judgement but willingly sacrifice their own people by imprisoning the man of the house who simply getting by off of a lil ganja- the evil in good- self righteous hypocrisy I call it.
  • kk (18/06/2025, 12:27) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
    @ lawd you sound like a fool people need to wòrk for what thay want before time there was none of it was hard work people just want to live light and weight heavy
    • LOL (18/06/2025, 17:05) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      You got all that from me saying hard times coming? you're a weirdo
    • Lawd (18/06/2025, 17:38) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      @kk Hard times coming as in hard times for them, yuh moomoo. Comprehension isn't in your skillset I see, you just wanted to reply about something smh
  • John (18/06/2025, 12:47) Like (6) Dislike (7) Reply
    Imagine been born here and been told you have to get a work permit to stay here, set of colonial masterscalling them selfs leaders
  • Pablo Escobar (18/06/2025, 12:48) Like (2) Dislike (5) Reply
    leg a lize it
  • BuzzBvi (18/06/2025, 13:08) Like (19) Dislike (2) Reply
    When we taking poster boy of drug dealing off the walls in our HOA? They cannot be Honorables if the looking up to criminals.
  • Benefits (18/06/2025, 13:09) Like (0) Dislike (7) Reply
    It is only good for the island that each shipment arrives safely and are so hypocritical where it is known that an island that only lives on tourists needs that money for progress and advancement like the politicians.
    • @benefit (20/06/2025, 06:47) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Im sure your Country is independant and here in Tola looking work and talking nonsense
  • open wide (18/06/2025, 13:12) Like (2) Dislike (12) Reply
    Always harassing the little man
  • ok but! (18/06/2025, 13:13) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    Great job cleaning up the country, but we need government and private sectors to start placing a focus on finding avenues to provide jobs for the people in the community... when the drug money is gone or hard to find, these young children/adults will start finding other ways to "eats". The robbing at gun point and home invasions will start, no one will be safe to walk the streets, similar to other developing countries.

    Stopping the large drug empire is great but we need think about the fall out of that as well, just saying.

    Rebuild the Prospect Reef Hotel- more jobs
    Expand/rebuild the ports of entry- more jobs
    Focus on alternative teaching and learning, develop more avenues to learn skilled hands on trades- more education and jobs.
  • Chalwell? (18/06/2025, 14:37) Like (6) Dislike (6) Reply
    Who get lock up
  • well done (18/06/2025, 15:06) Like (9) Dislike (1) Reply
    To the officers
  • Plot twist (18/06/2025, 15:29) Like (11) Dislike (17) Reply
    Nyron fake his death. Still involved with the lifestyle that build certain people businesses.
  • Drugs running. (18/06/2025, 15:37) Like (11) Dislike (3) Reply
    It takes smart people to smuggle and run drugs..Lots of these people are not smart or build for it...Take the risk. Take what comes with risk and the rich..
  • bvi (18/06/2025, 16:08) Like (2) Dislike (17) Reply
    If they were smart like Bob they won't get caught. Build the drugs into the boat, use coffee, Vaseline etc
  • Real Talk (18/06/2025, 17:30) Like (7) Dislike (4) Reply
    TO (BVI?( HAD BOB BEEN SMART HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALIVE TODAY ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD YEA RIGHT ONE DEAD MAN
  • HMMM (18/06/2025, 17:41) Like (5) Dislike (10) Reply
    With out dope aint no hope ....thats a poor mans work .....u aint paying the .money for we to work for u ..so shut.....
  • 2024 (18/06/2025, 22:16) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    when the dust settles most of we have no clue where the drugs gone along with the cash from these operations

  • 621796 (19/06/2025, 01:39) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    somebody is ratting again but we will find out!!!
  • @@Dealer (19/06/2025, 07:00) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Greed is a sin remember that. The cops are not stopping drugs they been 'trying' and its not working because they want more! They want action to get huge salary. The foreign cops black & white come and get the best of governor funding.

    They want to continue making money and drugs will always run because cops outside our community allow it. When alcohol was illegal it was the same story king pin gangsters Al capone corrupt cops and smugglers. Alcohol is out of police control and bartenders sell bushwackers and painkillers galore to tourist. It is called Babylon because the system is meant to destroy a people one way or another. The cleaner is causing the mess. That is why the CIA introduced drugs to inner city black folks and why all those illegal drugs were tested on homeless people by the US government. All the time you have agents inside allowing it or dealing themselves as undercover. Wake up.
    • Dealer (19/06/2025, 15:19) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      @greed is a sin

      My friend, I know about this system already, and it ain’t about greed sometimes, I’m talking about ganja and the business around it that could feed the youth who know how to sell it and have their clients, the ones who can cultivate the crop. It is a business, and many locals can get on it, but hear this. It still illegal even after seeing how much money the UK, US and Amsterdam pumping retrospectively. Legalise the ting and it’s one less “drug” to worry about and more job opportunities for those who stuck selling drugs with no pension/social security coming after retirement. If I had to sell drugs and I know people ain’t going let me work with them or for them because I do then I will be greedy and make as much as I can to sustain myself and family, even after I die cause this system don’t support what they say is illegal.
  • facts (19/06/2025, 11:36) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    So how much has been recovered. Wait for it?
    Sweet FA
  • @ @ @ dealer (19/06/2025, 15:48) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
    SO WHO INTRODUCED IT TO. US / WAS IT THE US TOO ❓️???? OR WAS IT .ONE OUR INDIGENOUS BVILANDER ❓️???? YOU MAY CONTINUE. POINTING YOUR DIRTY FINGER AT SOMEBODY ELSE AS THAT IS THE NORM FOR A LONG TIME NOW / FOOLS TALK BUT EVERYBODY THATS HEARING ISN'T FOOLS / LOOK IN THE MIRROR / OH - DON'T STAND TOO CLOSE IN CASE IT EXPLODE
    • Dealer (20/06/2025, 17:53) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      @@insecure child in all CAPS

      You know nothing, I said nothing about anything being introduced to anyone. I’m talking about business here and pointing out what’s holding the people who sell ganja back. Because it’s illegal, they go jail for possession, if they smoke it they can’t get jobs. So they get stuck fam, so what can we do for the generation that keeps being stolen from. Legalise it and let them form a trade. Watch weed become the fifth pillar that supports our country economically. You think. I ain’t talking about anything else so come out your emotions and learn to read fam.


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