Nevada Resident Accused of Grand Larceny at Sapphire Beach Bar; Arrested While Attempting to Flee Territory

ST. THOMAS — A man with a Nevada driver's license is currently awaiting trial for burglary and fraud after allegedly stealing checks from the office of a beach bar and cashing or depositing them in his own bank accounts. According to court documents, police were alerted on October 12 when a senior employee of the company that manages Sapphire Beach Bar filed a report. The company representative said some checks that had been left in the office for vendors were missing. When the company's bank was contacted to place a stop payment on the four missing checks, bank officials informed that one of the checks, in the sum of $9,500, had already been cashed. Two other checks, totaling over $2,400 had been deposited into an account at another bank. Company employees followed up and found that none of the individuals to whom the checks had been written had collected them from the office. Police were provided with a surveillance photo from October 9 that showed a man who was not authorized to ...