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Magistrate to Eric Casey: 'This is your lucky day!'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Magistrate Dr Velon L. John told Eric Casey today, May 16, 2014 that it was his lucky day as the Crown opted to offer no charges against him in one matter while no conviction was recorded in another matter where he pleaded guilty before the court to assaulting and threatening his father.
Homeless man for June trial after one year incarceration
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Homeless man, Sonnel G. Hanley, remains on remand nearly one year later after having his most recent hearing before the Magistrate’s Court on May 6, 2014 adjourned to a later date.
Belle Vue Man charged for choking & beating woman
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A Belle Vue man was placed before the courts recently after he allegedly assaulted a woman in the presence of several others in the RiteWay parking lot at Road Reef.
Long Bush youth assaults & threatens to shoot father
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Long Bush resident, Eric Casey, pleaded guilty before the Magistrate’s Court today, February 14, 2014 to assaulting and threatening to kill his father, almost one year to the date the incident occurred.
UPDATE: DR domestic denies using knife in alleged assault on woman
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Dominican Republic national Jenny Valdez has denied assaulting another woman while using a knife whom she allegedly found in the company of her boyfriend earlier this year.
Wife choker fined $4,000
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Vincentian Keith Quammie, who was accused of choking his wife and threatening to chop off the head of a man, was fined a total of $4,000 as penalty for four offenses when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards on November 21, 2013.
Fight over school bag lands Vincentian man in court
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Vincentian national, Keith Quammie, was convicted on four separate counts of assault and damage to property when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards on Friday, November 1, 2013.
Man allegedly threatened to kill another, Court hears
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Thomas Chapman pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal trespass, common assault and use of threatening language when placed before the Magistrate’s Court today, October 4, 2013.
UPDATE: Stuart Donovan for October trial
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Stuart Donovan, 46, will return to the Magistrate’s Court in three months for the start of his trial that stemmed from an alleged incident that occurred in Cane Garden Bay in October 2012.
DR woman allegedly assaults man with slippers
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Isabella Stephens, a national of the Dominican Republic, was placed on $25,000 bail after pleading not guilty to common assault on July 19, 2013 before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards.

