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Man in custody @ RT Police Station attacks officer
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Sea Cows Bay resident Verne Forbes has been fined $500 for assault on a male officer of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).
62-year-old VG man arrested for theft & assaulting police officer
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- A 62 year old man arrested for theft on Virgin Gorda allegedly assaulted a police officer and is also now facing a charge of Resisting Arrest.
VG woman charged for Assault & Criminal Trespassing
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A woman from Virgin Gorda has found herself in hot water after she allegedly committed Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm and Criminal Trespassing.
Local preacher Carlton O'Neal fined $1000 for assaulting wife
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Magistrate Ayanna O. Baptiste-DaBreo fined local preacher Carlton O'Neal $1,000, which he has to pay by January 31, 2020 or spend two months at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) in Balsam Ghut.
Howe sentenced to 5 years 3 months for attempted robbery, assault
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Justice Ann-Marie Smith has sentenced Virgin Islands Belonger Mickhail Howe of Lower Estate, Tortola, to five years and three months for attempted robbery and assault of a female in 2018.
VG woman allegedly choked, kicked & grabbed weave of cousin- court hears
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Jhani Brown, the virtual complainant, testified that her cousin Kianna George- the defendant- allegedly assaulted her and inflicted actual bodily harm on her on August 4, 2018.
USVI man chokes slam girlfriend on bed causing it to break
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Police in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 arrested a man who allegedly went to his girlfriend’s Watergut apartment, choked her until she could no longer breathe, then slammed her on a bed causing the bed to break.
DJ allegedly fractures intoxicated man’s jaw @ bar
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Duff’s Bottom resident, 44-year-old Keith S. Smith, is being criminally charged for assault occasioning actual bodily harm at the Magistrate’s Court, after he allegedly fractured a man’s jaw at a well-known Tortola bar on June 21, 2019.
JvD residents petition Gov’t to investigate David Dietrich
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI- More than 40 residents of Jost van Dyke (JvD) have signed a petition urging the Government of the Virgin Islands to investigate Mr David Dietrich, the former Director of Operations at Foxy’s Tamarind Bar and close friend of Mr Philiciano O. Callwood MBE aka ‘Foxy’.
USVI man allegedly beats wife, takes her cellphone & house keys
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— A woman told police on Friday, October 11, 2019 that her estranged husband assaulted her, took her house keys and cellphone and fled the area, [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) Public Information Officer Glen Dratte has announced.