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Two men were arrested and charged with gun crimes as police intensified patrols and carried out stop-and-search operations following the Oct. 25 escape of two inmates from His Majesty’s Prison …
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A man was shot multiple times in the early hours of Monday morning as he drove along the Ridge Road in Fahie Hill, police said. He was taken to the …
A man was hospitalised with gunshot wounds after a shooting Sunday evening in the Purcell Estate area, police said. “Preliminary reports indicate that multiple gunshots were heard shortly before 9 …
Two 18-year-olds were arrested and charged after police discovered illegal firearms during an operation carried out in the early hours of Friday morning in the Diamond Estate area, according to …
An attempted break-in at Meyers Estate and gunfire in Baughers Bay last week were added to a string of serious crimes across Tortola in recent weeks. Both incidents, which involved …
Following a string of armed robberies across Tortola in recent days, a young father was left fighting for his life after he was shot early Saturday morning in a bar …
Minutes before 9 p.m. on Friday, police received a report of gunfire in the Baughers Bay area, they said. Officers responded and carried out investigations in the area, according to …
Nearly four years after Jamiez Stoutt was shot to death inside Crystal’s Nightclub in Free Bottom, Erick Rabsatt was charged with his murder on Friday after being extradited from the …
Marine police on routine patrol seized a semi-automatic Glock pistol and two magazines of ammunition after intercepting a vessel shortly after midnight on Aug. 20, according to the Police Information …
Police are investigating separate reports of gunfire on Tortola and Virgin Gorda, they announced last Thursday. In the early hours of Aug. 15, they said, officers tipped off by an …
Accusing prosecutors of “unreasonable” delays and a “lamentable failure” to produce required disclosure, a judge recently halted a three-year-old case against a Virgin Islands police officer accused of indecently assaulting …
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A 17-year-old Virgin Gorda boy and a 25-year-old Mount Healthy man were arrested last month in connection with separate gun seizures, police said on Aug. 1. The teenager, of North …
A man was hospitalised for urgent medical care after a stabbing at about 5 p.m. on Friday left him in critical condition, police said Monday. Shortly after the incident, 43-year-old …
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Following a spate of gun violence in the territory late last week, Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley called on Britain to help address organised crime in the Virgin Islands. “I believe …
A three-day spate of gun crime on Tortola last week included an armed robbery, shootings in Purcell and Long Bush, and a pursuit where suspected car thieves fired at police …
Two people were found guilty and two others were set free following a three-week High Court trial linked to a record seizure of 20 guns, nearly 500 kilograms of cocaine, …
Well-known JTV reporter Cathy Richards has been found guilty of knowingly submitting a forged document to the Department of Labour and Workforce Development when the agency was requiring extra paperwork …
Police arrested a woman and two minors and seized an assault rifle on Friday after searching a Greenland residence as part of their ongoing investigation into the June 20 shooting …
An airport fire officer was shot to death at around 11 p.m. Friday in the Greenland area, police said. Eric Alezis Albert, 28, of Greenland, was employed at the Terrance …
A 48-year-old Trinidadian named John “Small Brent” Emmanuel is wanted for questioning in the May 10 murder of Nyron Erickson in West End, police said last week as they launched …
For the second time in less than a month, police are investigating an armed robbery at a business in Sea Cows Bay. However, they won’t say where exactly the robberies …
A West End man accused in 2023 of helping to run a major drug ring from His Majesty’s Prison was shot dead shortly after 3 p.m. on Saturday, police said. …
A Johns Hole man was arrested and charged following an early morning shooting outside a “popular nightclub” in the Free Bottom area, police said yesterday. Police did not name the …
Twelve days after an April 20 armed robbery at a Sea Cows Bay business, police acknowledged the incident in a four-sentence message that provided few details. “Preliminary reports indicate that …
Two masked men were arrested in the “early morning hours” last Thursday after police responded to a report that they were in the vicinity of a “popular local bank,” police …
