Was the sting operation against Andrew A. Fahie illegal?
Transcripts from the court show that a USA Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, Brian Wittig, when he testified in court, claimed that no local officials or personnel were contacted or involved with the sting operation or the confidential informant involving Andrew A Fahie. He further insulted the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) by telling the court all residents of the Islands are corrupt.
However, Judge Kathleen M. Williams did caution him and recommended he stop making such ambiguous statements.
While we know he was misleading the courts, because a former Governor already confirmed he was aware and was in on the operation, his testimony is on the court's records.
Providing that Mr Wittig claims are true, then many legal experts, and Foreign policy specialist told our newsroom that the DEA agent would have acted illegally while conducting the sting operation against Fahie because neither were they law enforcement officers nor was working with any local law enforcement officer or official, because this is a contravention of the law in the VI.
Is the witch-hunt real?
Meanwhile, as part of the plot to get the former Premier, information is emerging that UK officials and the National Crime Unit, through the UK appointed VI Commissioners of Police and UK officers, all white males working in the VI, sent a list of names to the UK National Crime Office to assist in finding ways to allow them to go after such persons, which were all persons living in the VI, mostly local persons, who were challenging British officials and especially the Governor in terms of the high-handedness that he was alleged to have been practicing.
It is alleged that meetings were held with these law enforcement agencies, all past and present UK Governors and UK Commissioners of Police who served in the VI, who were not only aware but allegedly fully involved.
This is believed to have started from 2021 onwards while the VI people were battling COVID-19 and struggling to keep the Territory stable. It is alleged the witch-hut continued because of the unworkable relationship between then Premier Fahie and then Governor Augustus J U Jaspert.
Editor’s note: Our newsroom will be doing a series of articles on Mr Fahie’s appeal and other matters relating to the case.
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55 Responses to “Was the sting operation against Andrew A. Fahie illegal?”
Now, there is no doubt he was targeted, but again, even if they did, he did not have to take the bait. He took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
Let's see what happens with the appeal, but I would bed surprised if it was successful.
i remember when i was young on the track some stanger called out to me (a young boy) and he asked if i does smoke and he selling weed. i look at him like he crazy and said no and walk away. cuz thats not my kinda life and the track of all places where people running to be healthy and need healthy lungs....i gonna smoke my lungs away? smhh
man crooked from the start. you can't bait a lion with a grasshopper...lions dont eat or bother with grasshoppers same way if you a law abiding cizitzen with good standards and morals its very hard to get caught up even by accident with illegal activites
Tha sh*** illegal a 100% thas intracment
It's hurtful to see an all black 95% population been supervised by a 2% white police from UK who will lock out local black BVI police from high profile communication between themselves and the governor and plot with outside law enforcement to remove the premier of the BVI, just imagine if any law enforcement in the USA would plot in secret with foreign special elite law enforcement body to remove the American president? That would be seen as treason, but wait we are missing something here, the BVI premiere is black and the law enforcement agencies are white, I have become convince that regardless of what they could have entice Andrew fahie with in his human frailties, it's a wrong against him, I think the DEA and the UK foreign office should be sued and pay fahie for damages and.for the suffering they brought to his person and families and an apology from the USA president.
With new players. You noticed the lady and her son went ghost. They will not be safe going back to Tortola.
According to an article published by The Guardian, the UK Major crime agency knew the plans of the entire sting beforehand BUT DIDN'T TELL JASPERT OR MATTEWS in fear of a leak. Andrew and his cronies fell right into the sting because common sense, street sense & political sense are not the same!
After the Feds lost that major extradition case with Bob hodge in local court some years ago, it was only a matter of time before these colonizers put a plan into action to clean house.
Following Andrew's bust, the entire territory now looks complicit not necessarily because everyone is involved, but because we consistently fail to hold one another accountable for how corruption and greed affect the BVI’s global reputation. Too often, short term gain outweighs long-term consequences.
Meanwhile, the U.S. “war on drugs” has become big business. Agencies like the DEA, FBI, ICE, and HSI benefit from high-profile takedowns of major “whales,” or organizations which often lead to promotions, increased funding, and financial incentives tied to prosecutions. Federal incarceration alone costs roughly $44,000 per inmate per year, turning enforcement into both political capital and economic currency.
We’ve become a joke on the global stage.
We had prisoners ordering confirmed hits from behind bars and people crying when the chickens have come home to roost. The world is built on checks and balances when those fail, consequences follow. It’s time we clean up our act, not just locally, but on a global scale.
Read this article
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-12-09/cocaine-corruption-and-colonialism-the-crisis-in-the-british-virgin-islands
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/how-narcotraffickers-captured-the-british-virgin-islands
The real lesson is judgment. Acting Premier, beefing with Governor Jaspert put a target on his back. In the streets, that’s when you move careful, not GREEDY. Easy money flashing outta the blue? That ain’t opportunity it’s a warning, a snare, a reminder that eyes are always watching. Move smart, or the trap finds you before you even see it.
Truth is, Andrew had all the cards for a royal flush, but missed out on what could have been a legendary chess move to outsmart his adversaries with a strategic double entendre of his own: initiating a royal police investigation that might’ve exposed and disrupted this operation involving DEA agents posing as cartel members. Had events unfolded differently, the resulting embarrassment for both the U.K. and the United States could have elevated him to near untouchable political status a true “Teflon Don.”
This is how the streets teach you:
patience is a weapon, control is currency, and every move counts. Read the room, read the players, and never let them make you play their game. That’s how you survive. That’s how you leave a mark.
I’ve seen enough to know moves like this don’t stop at a couple names. What the public hears is the “pretty version” the real story stays buried until pressure makes people talk. And thinking the feds are done once they grab somebody? That’s wishful thinking. When they show up, it’s because they plan to stay!