Illegal Immigrant From DR Sentenced for Unlawfully Possessing a Firearm Related to Shooting at St. Thomas Nightclub

  • Staff Consortium
  • January 22, 2021
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V.I. emergency personnel responding to a shooting incident By. VI CONSORTIUM

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 I.D.A., open the door of the Executive Night Club, Bar and Restaurant and discharge a firearm into the establishment. Immediately thereafter, the surveillance video records the defendant, Borg, shooting the firearm at I.D.A., striking him several times. Medical personnel later pronounced I.D.A. dead at the scene. A query conducted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services found that the defendant Borg is an illegal alien in the United States.

This case was investigated by the Virgin Islands Police Department in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Juan A. Albino.

 

 

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