Crime

With 13 Homicides in USVI For 2022 and Only One Solved, VIPD Pleads With Community For More Tips

"We're piecing the puzzles together without all the pieces and I'm just asking for your help in putting the pieces together." Those were the words echoed by Criminal Investigation Bureau Chief, Lieutenant Naomi Joseph during a police press briefing on Tuesday where she pleaded with residents to help the police solve numerous serious crimes in the territory.  “When we get to the crime scene the crime has already happened. The individual is already dead or removed and taken to the hospital. We get to a crime scene where all the witnesses that were there have already vacated. “We then have to come and put a puzzle together without all the pieces and the pieces that we’re missing are the individuals who were there, who saw, who know,” Lieutenant Joseph told media.  She shared that from January to June 2022, officers had already recorded 169 cases and had arrested 35 people. Seventeen (17) of those arrested were in connection to gun crimes. She said that a total of 43 guns were removed...