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March 19th, 2020
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).

March 4th, 2020
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.

January 29th, 2020
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.

January 21st, 2020
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.

December 13th, 2019
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.

November 28th, 2019
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.

October 24th, 2019
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.

October 23rd, 2019
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.

October 16th, 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’.

October 15th, 2019
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.

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