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September 15th, 2016
VZ man pleads guilty to possession of cocaine in USVI

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FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI — Alejandro Marva-Romero, 32, of Venezuela, pleaded guilty on Wednesday September 14, 2016 in federal court in the US Virgin Islands to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.

September 3rd, 2016
Man accused of ‘Ganja’ cultivation pleads ‘guilty with a cause’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – There were many raised eyebrows when Richard Thomas uttered the words "guilty with a cause" in the Magistrate's Court in John's Hole on September 2, 2016.

September 3rd, 2016
Glenville Callwood found guilty of threatening to kill cop

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Adding to his relatively tainted police record, Glenville Callwood was remanded to prison on September 1, 2016 after being found guilty of a 2014 incident in which he threatened to kill an off duty police officer in the presence of the man’s wife and baby.

August 10th, 2016
STT man pleads guilty to murder of innocent bystander

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- ST. THOMAS — A 24-year-old St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) man has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting an innocent bystander outside a nightclub in the USVI in October 2015.

July 23rd, 2016
David Turnbull & Kurt Rabsatt sentenced to jail

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Found guilty in the High Court of robbery on June 13, 2016, David Turnbull and Kurt Rabsatt were yesterday, July 22, 2016, sentenced to time in prison by Justice Nicola P. Byer.

July 8th, 2016
Ashemba Frett sentenced to 3 months in US prison

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — United States' District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced on Thursday, July 7, 2016 Ashemba Frett, 22, of Tortola, [British] Virgin Islands, to three months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for encouraging and inducing aliens to illegally enter the United States, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.

June 1st, 2016
Eric Cameron pleads guilty to beating a fireman

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- US Virgin Islands native Eric Cameron was on Monday May 30, 2016 remanded to prison after admitting to assaulting a Virgin Islands fireman last year April.

May 26th, 2016
Kevon Baronville to be sentenced June 10, 2016 for string of traffic offences

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - A young man who pleaded guilty to the offences of taking a conveyance without lawful authority, criminal damage, driving without a driver's licence and driving without insurance coverage will return to court on June 10, 2016 for sentencing.

February 24th, 2016
UPDATE: Steve Fossi gets non-custodial sentence

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Steve Fossi, the boat captain convicted of manslaughter for the death of two persons following a boat accident off Virgin Gorda on January 24, 2015, was today February 24, 2016 fined $45,000 for each count.

October 28th, 2015
Dwight Brookes begs court to pay fine after birthday!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - On October 27, 2015 Dwight Brookes appeared before Senior Magistrate ‎Tamia N. Richards and was fortunate to have been given a non-custodial sentence. He instead has to pay a total of $2,000 for two charges that he pleaded guilty to.

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