Crime

Truck Windshield Shattered, Husband Stabbed with Key: St. Thomas Woman Faces Domestic Violence Charges

ST. THOMAS — A woman who admitted to smashing the windshield of her husband’s truck faces domestic violence charges in court.  According to the probable cause fact sheet presented in court, just before 9:00 p.m. on May 12, a police officer was dispatched to a housing complex in Contant, where they met a man who told them that his wife had attacked him and their truck. He said that Helen Cuellar Iriarte had called him to say that she needed money, and so he went to the bank across the street from their home to get the requested funds. Police heard that the man went to meet someone else he had to pay, then returned home and parked his truck in the parking lot of the complex before walking over to his house. There, the man said he found his wife sitting in the driver’s seat of their SUV. The man said Iriarte appeared intoxicated, therefore he reached in and grabbed onto the steering wheel in an attempt to prevent her from driving off. However, she reportedly stabbed him several times in...