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December 19th, 2014
UPDATE: Kenyetta Boynes remanded on gun, ammo charge!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Kenyetta Boynes was today December 19, 2014 remanded to prison when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards to answer to the charge of unlawful possession of a prohibited weapon, ammunition and unlawful possession of 16.8 grams of a controlled drug.

December 17th, 2014
Immigration/RVIPF raid Tortola nightclubs

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Immigration Department of the Virgin Islands and the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) held a joint operation over the weekend on a number of nightclubs in Road Town and on the eastern end of Tortola.

December 13th, 2014
UPDATE: Missing Girl Found

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The missing teenager, Teah King, has been located and returned to her family.

November 29th, 2014
Kurt Rabsatt ID as alleged robber

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – When Kurt Rabsatt went to the Magistrate’s Court at John’s Hole on Wednesday November 26, 2014 his understanding was that he was there to deal with a pending matter as it related to possession of a quantity of counterfeit currency.

November 28th, 2014
CoP Morris denies waiver to officer despite court ruling

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “We will be giving him until next Wednesday, (December 3, 2014) to provide us with the reasons for his denial of the waiver and based on what he has as the reasons we will decide on the next course of action,” said Attorney at Law Mr Ruggles Ferguson who has been step by step with Police Officer (PO) Nicholas Tranquille in his quest for justice denied by Commissioner of Police (CoP) David Morris.

November 4th, 2014
RVIPF seeks public’s assistance in identifying suspect

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Officers of the Criminal Investigations Department are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect caught on surveillance camera inside a residence in Fahie Hill.

October 25th, 2014
UPDATE: Irene Penn-O’Neal, Cordell O’Neal & Zubida O’Neal charged

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Police moments ago confirmed that of the nine persons taken into custody as a result of a Police Operation involving the execution of a number of search warrants at various addresses in Tortola yesterday morning October 24, 2014, six were formally charged; four with firearms related offences.

October 10th, 2014
UPDATE: Police say 4 officers interdicted from duty

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Following this news site’s reporting of the submission to the Governor a petition signed by over 50 percent of officers on the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force calling for an investigation into corruption, the Police today October 10, 2014 announced that four officers who had been sent on compulsory leave have now been interdicted from duty.

October 9th, 2014
Marvin Robinson & Wendell Anthony guilty of beating Brandon George

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Yesterday October 8, 2014 when Magistrate Dr. Velon L. John announced guilty verdicts for Police Officers Marvin Robinson and Wendell ‘Food’ Anthony who were charged for beating 18 year old Brandon George back in 2012 and one relative said that the battle for justice has only just begun.

October 6th, 2014
‘Supa Cop’ AC move lands him in deeper hot water

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Not satisfied with the $100 fine imposed on him by Magistrate Dr. John L. Velon who had found him guilty for the charge of indecent assault as occasioned while on the job at the Road Town Police Station where he had grabbed the testicles of a man, Glenn ‘Supa Cop’ Callwood had further moved to the Appeal Court (AC).

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