Crime

Man Reported Twice For Brandishing Gun at Shopping Plaza Arrested, Found to be Illegal Immigrant

ST. THOMAS — An illegal migrant from St. Kitts & Nevis was arrested on Sunday after police say he intimidated members of the public with a gun.  On February 5, police responded to the Lima Shopping Plaza, after receiving a report that a man in a 2013 Honda CRV was in the parking lot who flashed a firearm at bystanders before putting it away in the SUV. Central Dispatch advised the officers that a man had been exhibiting the same behavior at the same location in the same gray CRV after being involved in an auto collision in January.  When officers arrived at the location, one of them recognized Jerome Jeffers standing on the sidewalk near the Honda - he had been one of the responding officers to the previous incident. At the time, despite the reports that he had been brandishing a firearm, police found no evidence of such. Additionally, the parties involved in the collision reportedly said they had reached an agreement between them, and thus the officer in question dropped the matter....