ST. THOMAS — Charlie Manuel Castillo Borg, 27, a citizen of the Dominican Republic with no legal status in the United States, was sentenced to time served in custody, announced Gretchen C.F. Shappert, U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. He has been detained under custody by local and federal authorities since December 31, 2019. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit the firearm he unlawfully possessed. When a judge sentences a defendant to "time served," the sentence is the same as the time the defendant has spent in jail, and the defendant is set free. According to court documents, on December 22, 2019, a shooting occurred at the Executive Night Club, Bar and Restaurant located at Contant #38, St. Thomas. Surveillance video from the incident collected at the scene shows a male subject, later identified with the initials…
John Burgos was sentenced to 21 months in prison and two years of supervised release for possessing…
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The Coast Guard terminated what is said was an illegal charter for the 29-foot small passenger vessel…
Update: A letter furnished to the Consortium indicates that the victim has asked that the public defender…
Men in Clown Masks Fire Multiple Shots at Victim…
Staff Consortium January 19, 2021ST. CROIX — V.I.P.D. officers are investigating a shooting that occurred Sunday in the Gallows Bay business…
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Woman Beaten, Raped in St. Thomas
Staff Consortium January 18, 2021ST. THOMAS — A Hispanic woman was said to be in critical condition at the Schneider Regional Medical…
Man Pleads Guilty After Being Arrested at Airport…
Staff Consortium January 18, 2021ST. THOMAS — Trevon Richards, 31, of St. Thomas, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and…
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CBP Interdicts Vessel From Puerto Rico Heading…
Staff Consortium January 17, 2021ST. THOMAS — Blas Sebastian Panzardi Davila of Puerto Rico, appeared Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge…
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ST. CROIX — A wicked trend has been taking hold at the Point Udall Monument on St. Croix: vandals wait until visitors to the location park their vehicles and trek down the mountain as part of a hike...
Kathleen Gussie, a former supervisor of the Medicaid eligibility section of the Department of Human Services' Medicaid Program Certification Unit, was arrested on Thursday morning on fraud and embezzl...
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ST. CROIX — On Friday at roughly 7:05 a.m., 23-year-old Rajah Caul of Company Street, Christiansted was arrested on a warrant issued by the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, the V.I.P.D. has ann...
ST. CROIX — The Virgin Islands Police Department has made an arrest in the recent homicide that occurred in Gallows Bay, the Consortium has learned. V.I.P.D. spokesman Toby Derima corroborated the i...
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Documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Thursday revealed who federal investigators had only identified as Target 1 in the original charging document as St. Tho...
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Effective January 13 at all U.S. ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain cotton products and tomato products produced in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, CBP h...
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An affidavit of the massive drug bust in Florida Tuesday night that involved two V.I.P.D. officers along with V.I. National Guardsmen, shows that four individuals were arrested but up to six participa...
Police Commissioner Trevor Velinor confirmed during a press conference that two V.I.P.D. officers were arrested in Florida last night for their involvement in a drug bust said to include over 300 kilo...
Two police officers from the St. Thomas-St. John District and members of the V.I. National Guard were caught in Florida's Opa-Locka Airport with about 300 kilos of cocaine, well-placed sources with kn...
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