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USVI police searching for men who forced cat to smoke marijuana
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) is seeking the community's assistance to identify and locate two men who were seen on video forcing a cat to smoke marijuana, according to police spokesman Toby Derima.
Youth who broke curfew to buy weed jailed for 2 mths
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Despite his passionate plea for a non-custodial sentence, stating that he wanted to spend an upcoming birthday with his infant child, Nikolai Brathwaite was sentenced to two months at Her Majesty’s Prison for ‘Breach of Curfew.’
Man fined $650 for 3 grams of weed
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man was on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, fined $650 at the Magistrate’s Court in John's Hole, Tortola, for having three grams of cannabis.
‘It’s weed officer’- Greenland man allegedly told police
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A man from Greenland, on the eastern end of Tortola, was fined $400.00 after he pleaded guilty before the Magistrate’s Court on September 12, 2019 for having a small quantity of marijuana in his possession.
Legalise the ‘weed’ in the VI - Jamal S. Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Well respected local attorney at law Jamal S. Smith raised eyebrows in the High Court when he said the Virgin Islands (VI) has some of the highest grade of cannabis sativa in the world and this is why he is against the importation of the drug while being a proponent of its legalisation.
USVI man brings ‘weed’ into VI to help him ‘relax’
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When Thomas D. Mannix packed among his clothing and other personal belongings two packets of cannabis sativa (marijuana) to bring with him to the Virgin Islands, he thought he was only bringing his “necessaries” to use after a hard day’s work.
‘Baby mama drama’ leads man to dime bag – Court hears
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Raphael Harrigan, 22, allegedly told officers that ‘baby mama drama’ led to him to be in possession of cannabis near the Purcell community basketball court in August, 2013.

