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June 20th, 2024
Pickering-Maynard sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for drug smuggling plot

MIAMI, Florida, USA- United States District Judge Kathleen M. Williams today, June 20, 2024, sentenced former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard to 9 years in prison for her involvement in a drug smuggling plot that also implicated her son Kadeem S. Maynard and former premier Andrew A. Fahie.

August 24th, 2022
11 years jail for man who robbed women @ gunpoint on VG

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A young man who pleaded guilty in May 2022 to armed robbery committed on two women at a store on Virgin Gorda on October 15, 2020, has been sentenced to 11 years, four months.

June 21st, 2022
Kittitian Andreas Norford gets 30 years in prison for C. Melbourne Francis murder

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- St Kitts national Andreas Norford, who was convicted on November 30, 2021, of the murder of Cornel Melbourne Francis aka ‘Trouble’, has been sentenced to 37 years imprisonment; however, after considering time served High Court Judge Richard G. Floyd reduced the sentence to 30 years, 6 months.

July 4th, 2019
Vincy man who led cops to his ganja farm ordered deported

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A native of St Vincent and the Grenadines who led police to his Marijuana farm on Tortola back in June 2017 has been ordered deported.

June 26th, 2019
Guyanese ‘model’ who faked HIV results to spend 9 months in jail

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A Guyanese woman who had hired a man to obtain an HIV test in her name after arriving in the Virgin Islands in April 2019 has been sentenced to nine (9) months in jail.

May 10th, 2018
USVI man gets 15 years jail for possession of firearm near school

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— A St Thomas, US Virgin Islands (USVI) man was sentenced Wednesday May 9, 2018 to 15 years for being found with an illegal handgun during a police operation more than a year ago, [US] Virgin Islands Department of Justice Public Media Officer Corliss Smithen announced Wednesday.

April 26th, 2018
Prominent VI lawyer’s son gets 10 years in jail for rape

MANHATTAN, New York, USA- 23-year-old George Fay, whose father is a well-known figure in the judicial system in the Virgin Islands, was sentenced on Tuesday April 17, 2018 to 10 years in prison for raping a sleeping woman in an Upper East Side, New York apartment.

May 31st, 2017
Former USVI police captain sentenced to 40 years for murder of wife

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI — Forty years in prison – with credit for 326 days already served – was the sentence USVI Superior Court Judge Michael C. Dunston handed down on May 30, 2017 on Enrique Saldana, the [US] Virgin Islands Department of Justice announced.

May 15th, 2017
9 years in jail for Matthew D. Hazell

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After being found guilty on March 31, 2017 of attempted murder, attempted robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, Matthew D. Hazell was today, May 15, 2017 sentenced to nine years in prison by Justice Nicola P. Byer.

February 6th, 2017
30 years until possibility of parole for Kenyatta ‘Yhats’ Boynes

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Kenyatta ‘Yhats’ Boynes, 32, who in October of last year was found guilty of the shooting to death of Paul Prentice and attempted murder of another man, committed on December 14, 2014 in Road Town, has been sentenced to life imprisonment with eligibility of parole after 30 years.

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