Crime

Woman Gets More Than 8 Years In Jail For Stabbing Pregnant Housemate

ST. THOMAS -- A 40-year-old Haitian woman who was convicted of beating and stabbing her pregnant roommate, then destroying her cellphone has been sent to prison for her crimes, V.I. Department of Justice Public Media Officer Corliss Smithen announced Friday. On March 8, a 12-member jury unanimously convicted Nathalie Premier of no known address of third-degree assault, using a dangerous weapon during a third-degree assault, simple assault and destruction of property in connection with the Dec. 22, 2016, assault of Dyane Hyppolite at the Bethlehem House for the Homeless, according to Ms. Smithen. At Premier’s scheduled sentencing hearing on Friday, V.I. Superior Court Judge Kathleen Mackay handed her a seven-and-a-half-year prison term for the weapons conviction, a suspended six-month prison term for simple assault, one year for third-degree assault and one year with all but two months suspended for destruction of property with all of the terms to run concurrently. Premier, who was free...