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Recent shooting victim Kareem A. Durante remanded for firearm possession

Less than a month after he was shot while at a social event on Beef Island, Kareem A. Durante aka Blocker has been remanded to prison for firearm possession. Photo: Team of Reporters/File
According to a press release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force today, the guns were allegedly recovered as Police continued their investigations into the disappearance of Devern Stanley aka Snoopy who has been reported missing. Photo: File
According to a press release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force today, the guns were allegedly recovered as Police continued their investigations into the disappearance of Devern Stanley aka Snoopy who has been reported missing. Photo: File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Less than a month after he was shot while at a social event on Beef Island, Kareem A. Durante aka Blocker has been remanded to prison for firearm possession.

Mr Durante, 28, appeared this afternoon, June 10, 2016 before the Magistrate’s Court charged with possession of a firearm and two counts of unlawful possession of ammunition after Police allegedly uncovered a 99mm handgun and a 45 caliber handgun along with ammunition at his premises.

According to a press release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force today, the guns were allegedly recovered as Police continued their investigations into the disappearance of Devern Stanley aka Snoopy who has been reported missing.

Durante pleaded guilty to all charges and was remanded for sentencing on July 21, 2016.

According to a police press release, two other males taken into custody with Durante have since been discharged pending further investigations.

Durante of Butu Mountain, on the main Island of Tortola, had suffered a gunshot to the back, which allegedly exited his body, a story first and accurately reported by Virgin Islands News Online on May 16, 2016.

Following the shooting, Durante was taken to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Peebles Hospital with damages to the lungs and liver as a result of the gunshot.

Sources close to the family of Durante had two weeks ago confirmed that the injured man had since been discharged from Peebles Hospital and on the road to recovery.

37 Responses to “Recent shooting victim Kareem A. Durante remanded for firearm possession”

  • circus (10/06/2016, 18:53) Like (14) Dislike (4) Reply
    Clown
  • Xxx (10/06/2016, 18:59) Like (1) Dislike (6) Reply
    Oh no?
  • Oh Well (10/06/2016, 21:05) Like (12) Dislike (4) Reply
    Someone is dropping some serious dimes. How 5-0 knew where to go to find those guns.
    • The TRUTH (11/06/2016, 11:10) Like (2) Dislike (4) Reply
      Them most know his own fam and neighbor dropping dim on him all he trying to do is protect him self dodge and hummer dude soft
      • Damn (11/06/2016, 14:46) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
        That dude is like a walking magnet for trouble. He just got out of jail, someone try to put his lights out, now back to jail for illegal weapons found in his home. He need to get his S::t together real fast.
      • @THE TRUTH (11/06/2016, 15:29) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
        Who put gun and mask in he motha house GTFOH......stop talkin
        &*$#.
  • wize up (10/06/2016, 21:11) Like (34) Dislike (3) Reply
    These young man should be out looking wife but out doing dumb !uck; no wonder the territory have so many lesbians
    • Agree (11/06/2016, 08:20) Like (14) Dislike (26) Reply
      @wize up I agree, there is a big shortage of men here. I prefer to be with a man from here but since they are all in jail or doing stupid things, I stay single. I don't want to be with a down island man or a Santo.
      • son of the soil (11/06/2016, 09:18) Like (10) Dislike (5) Reply
        you is one smart daughter of the soil.
      • wow (11/06/2016, 14:50) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
        U gah chk yuh boy... I ain in jail
      • wize up (11/06/2016, 18:50) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
        @ agree: It really hurt me because I was once that age; young and full of life and there is no way i passed on the females to run around playing with guns then make it worst in and out of the jail house
      • Hmmmmm (11/06/2016, 23:38) Like (13) Dislike (2) Reply
        Well if all the local men up Balo and you don't want any down island man or Santo you can remain single or turn a lesbo. You sound dumb, stupid and ignorant. Does it matter where the man is from once he treats you right and respects you? I LOVE my local men same way but if they are not stepping up to the plate what is there to do?
        • becauseee (13/06/2016, 09:55) Like (0) Dislike (3) Reply
          We don't want them because (1) we candy understand them and two these "down island" man does approach women so disrespectful and come of a bet thirsty ..
  • tretretrete (10/06/2016, 21:19) Like (16) Dislike (1) Reply
    wellsah u just come outta jail and u goin bak up...smfh.. ayo young man dont learn at all mehson
    • ya check (10/06/2016, 23:37) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
      I saying the same thing...Ya gone jail for sooo long ya finally get out and this the stupidness you doing again...strupesss ...
      • True (11/06/2016, 16:10) Like (13) Dislike (2) Reply
        But some people can only function in jail. Jail here is a piece of cheese cake with cherry glaze on top. They eat good, free cable tv, alcohol, weed, cell phone, hair done up, street clothes, radio, personal fridge you name it you can find it up at Holiday Inn on the hill.
  • R.i.P (10/06/2016, 21:26) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Pana shoulda never play with fire now he mia
  • Dragon (10/06/2016, 21:29) Like (11) Dislike (1) Reply
    Not another $20,000.00 fine I hope.
    • struppss (10/06/2016, 22:23) Like (2) Dislike (13) Reply
      Ayo just like to see people go jail some ayo just undercover and ain't get catch yet that's all
  • vick (11/06/2016, 06:56) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    one gun,five years,two guns ten years at balo.as simple as that.
  • talk (11/06/2016, 09:28) Like (0) Dislike (9) Reply
    I hope when you get ketch with your 3 you could do your 15 years set of assholes
  • Real (11/06/2016, 10:39) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    Big man on the hill getting what he wants either his cuz go jail or in the ground
  • The TRUTH (11/06/2016, 11:01) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
    A dodge and hummer doesn't make you hard we see who you really are fat boy
  • tola (11/06/2016, 14:43) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Blame Pepole for his f up he hot like fire
    • Exactly (11/06/2016, 15:21) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      The guy is hot. This is some crazy mess. These guys is on this street justice messs. They are only making things worse when they take the mess to the streets.
  • de silent one (11/06/2016, 17:41) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    its fortunate that he survived the shooting, but not for one moment that was the end of that incident. It will be tit for tat until they injure or kill each other. There need to be some form of intervention to stop this nonsense. They are not getting into any meaningful stuff community wise but to sit on the corner and smoke their lives away and plan their next criminal hit on decent hard working people. Its a shame.
  • Energy (11/06/2016, 21:05) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Hope the police do there job right this time and add it all up. May there souls rest in peace
  • The Reaper (12/06/2016, 13:16) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply

    The missing guy were the one who shot &>>>>...pay back is a b**ch

  • Hmmmm (12/06/2016, 14:02) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wow
  • Agree (12/06/2016, 14:17) Like (1) Dislike (2) Reply
    @Hmmm, you can call me what ever you want, that is my choice you F::;ing hood rat chicken head trash. Dummy, if a person choose to stay single, that is there damn business. Who the h:;l are you to pass judgement on anyone. You need to get away from Tortola for a while to gain some common sense. Now go marinate on that.
  • Going to say it (12/06/2016, 14:26) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Word on the street is, Snoopy gone missing because he was involve in the beach shooting.
    • streets (12/06/2016, 15:03) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      That is the 411/info on the streets. That is what is being said. Snoop gone missing because he was some how involve in the static/shooting up on the beach. Dude that just got pinch for the guns and his posse knows everything.
  • Donkey Kong (12/06/2016, 14:52) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    @Hmmm, you sound like you are desperate to have any man in your life as long as he got something swinging. Some people is so desperate for a man they would settle for anything be it a male ape, dog, donkey or criminal. Which one pertain to you. Hmmm, stop passing judgement and calling people names, it is none of your business.
  • Worth it all (12/06/2016, 15:56) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    to snoopy and blocka... read the lyrics... when you in prison and dead a next man is going to screw your woman...



    In a gunman world
    In the night him clock in at work
    Marrow splash at the tool box pull
    The magazine in a the two glock full
    And he's watching as the days goes by
    And he's counting as his peers all die
    Sleeping with the rifle cross his chest
    So he never get's a good night's rest
    And then he's cranky in the morning times
    And more victims have to lose their lives
    The community a christian birth
    Wishing that they wasn't in a gunman world

    In a gunman life
    Him might not come home from work one night
    So every minute matter, ignores advise
    From his weeping baby mother and child
    That he won't win every game he plays
    So she knows he'll meet his end one day
    Some juvenile will have to earn his stripe
    And have to take another gunman's life
    What if a back stabber names his price
    And how ironic if him dead from knife
    The mount a bullet weh him put 'pon boy
    Job description kill and destroy

    [Chorus:]
    Now tell me is it worth it all?
    If one gun rise then the next must fall
    Tell me is it worth it all?
    Sleepless night's and patrol old car
    Tell me is it worth it all?
    One child smile while a next one bawl
    Tell me is it worth it
    Is it worth it, is it worth it all

    [Verse 2:]
    In a gunman world
    Life is so stressful
    Back to school time come
    Cause when a gunman work
    If he is successful
    And the job is well done
    Then there will be an unsolved crime
    With no one to fill out all blank line
    John Public haffi hear and deaf
    Informer get a kuff, kaff, kweff
    Does he get nervous just like you and I?
    Watching out 'fi the police pass by
    Cause anyday you hear a gunman fail
    Then is either dead house or jail
    What will it cause to make a gun man rich
    How many life before a gun man switch
    The truth mi want the youth dem stop ignore
    Say the majority a gunman poor

    [Chorus]

    [Verse 3:]
    And when a gunman makes choice
    I wonder what goes through a gunman's mind
    And does a gunman think twice
    Before him take another someone's life
    I wonder what it is a gunman say?
    To the father when a gunman pray
    Does he kiss his kids to bed at night?
    Making sure the blanket tucked just right
    Nothing no scary like a gunman voice
    When people beg a gunman think twice

    What could a scary like a gunman's voice
    When people beg a gunman think twice
    Him say no...
  • Dang (12/06/2016, 22:12) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    @Worth it all, man, that is deep. Wow.
  • nina (13/06/2016, 06:01) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    junior gong


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