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Woman pushed down stairs by man who robbed her 14kt gold chain in USVI

December 8th, 2015 | Tags: Sakeeda Freeman Robbery VIPD staircase gold chain
An unknown suspect, in his attempts to rob a woman of a 14K gold chain, injured the victim after pushing her down stairs leading to her home, VIPD Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced on Monday December 7, 2015. Photo: VI Consortium
VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — An unknown suspect, in his attempts to rob a woman of a 14K gold chain, injured the victim after pushing her down stairs leading to her home, VIPD Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced on Monday December 7, 2015.

According to Ms Freeman, citing a police report, the incident occurred near Kenia’s Fashion in Kronprindsens Gade on Sunday, December 6, 2015 at about 7:05 a.m., when the victim was heading up a staircase that leads to her residence.

As she made her way up, an unknown, black male grabbed her 14kt gold chain from her neck from behind, and pushed the victim down the staircase, causing a contusion to the head and lacerations to her left knee, according to the report.

VIPD is asking anyone with information relative to this incident to call 911 or contact the anonymous tips service, Crime Stoppers, USVI at 1-800-222-(TIPS) 8477, or go to www.crimestoppersusvi.org.

Elsewhere on St Thomas, at about 5:20 pm on the same day, Michael Swift, 56, of Estate Bordeaux, was arrested and charged with grand larceny, according to Ms Freeman, made known in a separate press release issued on Monday.

Ms Freeman said that Swift was arrested after the victim caught him removing a television from under a shed at the Crown Bay Marina and attempted to put it in his vehicle. During further investigation, officers located several other items belonging to the victim in Swift’s transport.

Unable to make bail of $35,000, Swift, was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections pending his advise-of- rights hearing.

7 Responses to “Woman pushed down stairs by man who robbed her 14kt gold chain in USVI”

  • ta ta (08/12/2015, 19:32) Like (5) Dislike (8) Reply
    Between the usvi and bvi not sure who is ahead on crime
  • just asking... (08/12/2015, 20:36) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    People still steal goal chains?
  • MarciaC (08/12/2015, 21:35) Like (2) Dislike (23) Reply
    Sorry to hear about that but guess what? We dealing with our own serious *h*ts here trying to find out who killed our family, so gots to put this one on the back burner....
  • do better (09/12/2015, 05:00) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    Everything from over seas get preference in this country.. Our music not getting reported, not getting played.. Little correction.. Third world man I heard him playing local music. Thanks third world man..now you telling us about some woman in st Thomas. When we are getting rob here in a much bigger way with all these ridiculous food prices.. If you want to talk about st Thomas do a food price comparison.


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