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Mentally ill woman allegedly takes off with tips jar of RT business

- Another video shows the woman being accosted by persons & a purse is retrieved
In a video shared with our newsroom, the two could be seen on the sidewalk outside Courtesy Car Rental grabbing at each other’s throats, while what appears to be monetary notes could be seen scattered on the ground. Photo: Screenshot
After a short struggle the two separated and the woman proceeds to pick up some monetary notes and then walks off unpursued. Photo: Screenshot
After a short struggle the two separated and the woman proceeds to pick up some monetary notes and then walks off unpursued. Photo: Screenshot
In another video, the same woman is accosted in the vicinity of Cutlass Tower by a group of persons, including a security guard. What appears to be a purse is wrestled away from the woman and given to another woman in the group. Photo: Screenshot
In another video, the same woman is accosted in the vicinity of Cutlass Tower by a group of persons, including a security guard. What appears to be a purse is wrestled away from the woman and given to another woman in the group. Photo: Screenshot
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A mentally-ill woman and a male employee of a food business in Road Town were briefly engaged in a scuffle recently after the woman reportedly made off with the business’ tips container.

In a video shared with our newsroom, the two could be seen on the sidewalk outside Courtesy Car Rental grabbing at each other’s throats, while what appears to be monetary notes could be seen scattered on the ground.

After a short struggle, the two separated and the woman proceeds to pick up some monetary notes and then walks off unpursued.

Another incident involving mentally-ill woman

In another video, the same woman is accosted in the vicinity of Cutlass Tower by a group of persons, including a security guard.

What appears to be a purse is wrestled away from the woman and given to another woman in the group.

A bag that appears to belong to the woman is then searched.

It is unclear what was found.

Meanwhile, the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) in a press release on September 23, 2022, said within the space of a month, the RVIPF recorded eight incidents involving persons who either displayed behaviour of mental illness or are registered mentally ill persons.

43 Responses to “Mentally ill woman allegedly takes off with tips jar of RT business”

  • R. Fonseca (11/10/2022, 16:35) Like (13) Dislike (31) Reply
    If i could help her i would, it pains me to see her live this way, i dont understsnd how the females of the community turns a blind eye!
    • R. Fonseca (11/10/2022, 17:01) Like (34) Dislike (1) Reply
      I understand what you’re saying
      However how do u think we can get together to assist her?
      I’m open for ideas and would join with you & others.
      Rehab would be my idea...
    • maybe (11/10/2022, 17:05) Like (9) Dislike (11) Reply
      Maybe the same way you do. Why the males can't help too?
    • smdh (11/10/2022, 17:11) Like (61) Dislike (0) Reply
      Others HAVE tried. She refuses help. Is only interested in getting money for drugs. She needs to be taken off the streets.
      • @boy oh boy (13/10/2022, 08:47) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        SHE NEEDS TO PUT IN REHAB FOR A LONG TIME, FAR AWAY FROM TORTOLA, NOT JUST BEING PUT IN THE BHU WARD AT HOSPITAL, THAT'S NOT GOING TO CUT IT. SHE HAVE TO GO THROUGH A CLEANS. HASANNAH I AM SO SORRY TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE BECOME.
    • @ Mr Fonseca because you can’t be a female talking like that. (11/10/2022, 18:33) Like (13) Dislike (13) Reply
      Df females have to do with this?… She has both men and women in her family right?.. Or is it that only women can be compassionate enough?.. How is it that only females are to be blamed for not helping a mentally ill woman?.. So I guess I should blame you for the men?.. Okay understood..

      Its pains me to see the many mentally ill men live the way they do in the BVI. I don’t understand why the males of the community turn blind eyes.

      Lol sounds stupid right?… Blame the family members and the government for not helping the homeless not just females brother. And by your statement I’m getting a deep disgust of females .. I’m guessing we may not be your type?.
    • Really (11/10/2022, 18:35) Like (18) Dislike (7) Reply
      The females of the community you say?? Really?? What role does her family play in this? Now tell me, I don’t understand how the males in the community turn a blind eye to a child who is being bullied in public school.

      I cried with the mother who shared what her child has and is enduring. Imagine, school authorities notified, police notified and all thru can tell this mother that they looking into the matter.

      The BVI is in a crisis!
    • @R. Fonseca (11/10/2022, 20:35) Like (16) Dislike (2) Reply
      SHE CHOOSE THE LIFE THAT SHE IS LIVING, SHE WAS THE ONE THAT MADE THE CHOICE TO SMOKE CRACK. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FEMALES LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY TURNING A BLIND EYE. WHY DON’T YOU TAKE HER IN AND HELP HER, BET SHE WILL ROB YOUR A** BLIND OR PERHAPS HURT YOU REAL BAD OR WORSE IF SHE ASK YOU FOR MONEY AND YOU SAY NO.
    • @ R. Fonseca (12/10/2022, 08:25) Like (19) Dislike (0) Reply
      I personally know it's not for the lack of the family trying so please. The community can try with her all they want but until she recognizes, accepts the fact that she needs help and is willing to accept the help, nothing will happen. Yes, they may take her to the hospital for a few days/weeks but as soon as she comes out she goes straight back to the persons she is accustom of hanging around and then a few days later she is back in the same state or worse.

  • Not Crazy. Crack head.. (11/10/2022, 16:47) Like (54) Dislike (1) Reply
    Call them who they are. Stop giving them honourable titles...They are not crazy, they are crack heads steeling to satisfy their. craving. Something need to be done urgently before someone get seriously hurt.
  • IT STARTED (11/10/2022, 16:53) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    IT HAD CTO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER , THEM CRACKHEADS ON THE LOOSE , AND WHEM THEY PICK THEM UP THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEM , LIKE A ( REHAB CENTER ) SO WHEN THEY TREAT THEM AT THE HOSPITAL NTHEY ARE RELEASED BACK ON THE STREETS INTO THE SAME ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY ARE EXPOSED TO THE SAME DRUGS AGAIN THAT MESSED UP THEIR HEAD IN THE FIRST PLACE , SO THEY
  • omg (11/10/2022, 16:57) Like (27) Dislike (2) Reply
    She’s very vicious I’ve seen her many occasions at a car park outside a supermarket in town
    She attacks persons in fact we don’t even bother to get out our vehicle until she moves away from that area or go somewhere else

    I do pity her but she attacks persons and is very vicious...
  • asking for a friend (11/10/2022, 17:23) Like (27) Dislike (15) Reply
    She needs help where is Marlon Penn the weak minister of health
  • asking for a friend (11/10/2022, 17:34) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    who is her family?
  • hmm (11/10/2022, 17:36) Like (49) Dislike (2) Reply
    She need two hard slap.
  • flUffy (11/10/2022, 17:41) Like (29) Dislike (1) Reply
    Is she mentally ill? Or has a drug problem ..and is been treated as a mentally ill person?? UNTIL THE DAY THAT THE GOVERNMEMT AND THE TAX PAYING CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE SUED BY A TOURIST FOR THE CONDUCT OF THIS YOUNG LADY......THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE RUSH TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE BEHAVIOURS.....THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE BEEN PICKED UP, TAKING TO THE BEHAVIOURAL WARD ..PUMPED WITH " CALM DOWN" MEDS AND THEN SET LOOSE AGAIN ON SOCIETY ( SOME WITH NOWHERE TO GO)..JUST TO START THIS CYCLE ALL OVER AGAIN.......GOD HELP
  • CARTOON COUNTRY (11/10/2022, 18:45) Like (25) Dislike (1) Reply
    Sandy Lane Center is a waste of time. All it really amounts to is a safe haven for drug and alcohol addicts to operate. Persons in this institution should not be allowed to roam the streets during the day. This is when they procure their contraband to take back to the facility for later use. Meanwhile government provides bed and board for persons who feel they are getting over on the system. This whole concept is basically flawed and just another area of wasted government expenditure. Make it make sense.
    • smfh (12/10/2022, 12:21) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      Stop spreading lies! This is not true. Everyone that lives in Sandy Lane is mentally Ill and is unable to live independently. If you knew or even took time to volunteer at that center, most of their clients are elderly. Few persons like macho, yellow and Michael are able to go out and hustle. Drugs are forbidden on the premises, which is why yellow does what she has to do and comes back in. They cannot kick residents out if the government doesn't give the Okay.
      It is easy to point the finger when you have slim knowledge of the situation. That place is begging for help from the public so
  • Hmm (11/10/2022, 19:17) Like (30) Dislike (2) Reply
    Ayo good.. I woulda lick down her mdersnt.. call me mentally I’ll too
  • Listen carefully (11/10/2022, 20:15) Like (23) Dislike (1) Reply
    She is not mentally ill. She is a substance abuser. She took the money to buy her drug of choice, CRACK COCAINE. People that is mentally I’ll do not steal money, they will beg for it. She is a crack head that got hooked on the glass D**K. I don’t trust or want anything to do with a crack head, they will sell their mothers eye balls for a hit of crack. At junkie will shoot up heroine and go somewhere and nod out or they look like they are keeling over about to hit the ground and bounce right back up. A crack head is always on the move looking for what they can steal.
  • mental (11/10/2022, 20:21) Like (26) Dislike (2) Reply
    A young man mash up our vehicle all of a sudden he is mental because no one wants to pay for it. The matter gone under the rug police, family and health gone to sleep on the matter. A mental person don't have the sense to mash up someone vehicle with the one he drove. Run away Leave the scene, come back and try to take his vehicle from the scene. Yea right he is mental. If one of us had deal with him you would not have said we mental but lock us up. Insurance in the mill mall is a waste of time.
    When people take justice for them selves you quick to come lock them up but time is longer than twine.
  • She ain’t crazy (11/10/2022, 20:22) Like (34) Dislike (7) Reply
    SHE IS A DAMN CRACK HEAD. PEOPLE LIKE HER IS THE REASON WHY I CARRY A TASER. YOU CANNOT TRUST A CRACK HEAD. I SEEN HER A FEW TIMES ON HER MISSION AND IF SHE GET TO CLOSE, I AM GOING TO TURN MY TASER LOOSE ON HER.
  • jk (11/10/2022, 20:35) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
    @asking for a friend why u people like jump to conclusion so buddy is Marlon the first minister of health this is a broblem for years don't be beyous now
  • dogman (11/10/2022, 22:35) Like (18) Dislike (12) Reply
    She from UP ISLAND! she barn here.....
    • Stupes (12/10/2022, 05:18) Like (7) Dislike (2) Reply
      And what is your point Dogman? If she was “born here” we have to deal with her whereas we don’t have to deal with who ain’t “born here” other than to do what other countries do - put them on a plane.
    • Brewley (12/10/2022, 08:19) Like (5) Dislike (9) Reply
      She is a daughter of the soil 3 generations back
  • tola (12/10/2022, 00:25) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    She need help where's the brewley family?
  • musa (12/10/2022, 05:16) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    She need professional assistance or she will hurt somebody or she can end up getting hurt.
  • To The Point (12/10/2022, 07:07) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    A damn crack head that is all. She is not mentally sick. Get her off the streets before she hurt someone or she end up getting hurt. I will hurt a crack if they get to close to me. Never trust a crack head, don’t ever let a crack head in your home.
  • Really??? (12/10/2022, 09:09) Like (20) Dislike (0) Reply
    Well if everyone is so sure she's a crackhead lets pressure the Police to find who is dealing that S**T here and lock them up. It would get them out of mould central for a while and give them something worthwhile to do. Just a thought.
  • To Here's my take (12/10/2022, 10:54) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    I believe there are family, former friends and other community minded persons that want to help; but only see that their help can only be done meaningfully with assistance of a controlled facility. This is where the BVI Government comes in. There is yet for a mental facility to be built. The current facility, Safe Haven, is inadequate. It is concerning that this aspect of our society, our economy is not dealt with adequately. When will it?
  • Steven A (12/10/2022, 12:44) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    In order for your Country to continue to progress; you need to get rid of the garbage or it will continue to pull you guys down. Get tough on the drug dealers too, the Government know who some of the major players are.
  • smh (12/10/2022, 13:00) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    These individuals are supposedly deemed to be a Nuisance to Society( threat to Human Lives) so why isn't there some provision in the Laws to have them picked up by Authorities and shipped off Island for treatment and rehabilitation . Are We going to wait until someone is seriously injured or if one of these individuals mess with the wrong individual and get killed.
  • Tough Love Time (12/10/2022, 13:32) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Lock her up at HMP. The End, charge her with theft. What is so hard about that?
    • @Tough love time (12/10/2022, 15:10) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
      She needs to be placed in a detox center. Put her in prison she will get withdrawals or possible seizures.She needs to be in a detox center where they are equipped to handle her problem. People here talking about call police, there is nothing the police can do unless the crack head seriously hurt or kill someone. Why not use the old hospital as a inpatient outpatient mental facility and detox center.
  • Excuse me (12/10/2022, 15:11) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    Is that not Fyah/Fire/Fiah? is she a Brewley? I though she was from Long Bush.
  • Tortola (12/10/2022, 19:26) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    ......do not take people with drug issues or mental illness seriously. Pure blind eyes by Gvt officials who can help. Pure nonsense.
  • The truth is (13/10/2022, 11:02) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    the people who is importing these weed wi5h a whole set of fancy names , is one of the ways that these youths are getting hooked on cocaine / heroine etc , because its been given a bath in those mind altering drugs , and the people who is pushing it , don't care about what it bdoes to your head , ( so nits all about the MiGHTY DOLLAR ???? and a lot of people here knows who is involved in it , but it's swept under the rug , ( BUT sooner or later their family will get HOOKED , meanwhile the whole country is slowly becoming a drug paradise for some
  • you go fyre (13/10/2022, 16:06) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply

    £'d them up. i know you must of gone order a small food and them hit you a high price.

    there latel getting crazy on price. small all 10 and sh** ???????????????????? i say ^kem up

  • fyah (18/10/2022, 23:07) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I'm fyah and I love crack


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