Crime

Woman Facing Felony Charges For Allegedly Stealing and Driving Dead Man’s Vehicle

ST. THOMAS – A woman was arrested and charged for allegedly removing a vehicle from the yard of a deceased man and driving it around town in defiance of attempts by grieving family members to retrieve their loved one’s property. On May 24, two women presented themselves to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. The widow of Elmo Joseph said that her husband passed away last December in Georgia, leaving his vehicles parked on his family’s property in Hospital Ground. Following the man’s burial, his widow discovered that one of the cars – a black Chevrolet Malibu – had been removed from the property. A family member subsequently informed her that Florence Testamark, who had worked with the deceased doing landscaping and providing trucking services, had taken the vehicle. The family member had seen Testamark driving the Malibu on several occasions. Indeed, she drove it to attend Joseph’s viewing, which sparked a verbal altercation between herself and the dead man’s daughter about the vehic...