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Jamal Freeman aka ‘Uncle’ wanted by police for escaping lawful custody

- Freeman was allegedly in handcuffs when he fled from Nurse Iris O’Neal Clinic on VG
Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Jamal Freeman aka ‘Uncle’, 29, of East End, Tortola for escaping lawful custody on New Year's Day. Photo: RVIPF
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Jamal Freeman aka ‘Uncle’, 29, of East End, Tortola for escaping lawful custody.

According to a press release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) on January 4, 2024, Freeman escaped police custody while in handcuffs on January 1, 2024.

Police said Freeman was at Nurse Iris Oneal Clinic in Virgin Gorda seeking medical attention when he turned fugitive.

The RVIPF described Freeman as a black male with dreadlocks, slim built and has a height about 5 ft 11 inches.

It is unclear why Freeman was in police custody at the time of his escape. 

Persons with any information regarding the whereabouts of Jamal Freeman are asked to contact the RVIPF Intelligence Unit at 368-9339 or 368-9593.

29 Responses to “Jamal Freeman aka ‘Uncle’ wanted by police for escaping lawful custody”

  • one eye (04/01/2024, 13:12) Like (11) Dislike (34) Reply
    Free the Drew
  • Funny (04/01/2024, 13:25) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    The smart criminals know it is easier to make a run for it if they are handcuffed in the front rather than behind their backs.
  • de silent one (04/01/2024, 14:01) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    Here we go again, the police exhibiting their incompetency, when are they going to get serious with executing their duties? I guess when one of them get seriously hurt, hope it wont be to late
  • three eye (04/01/2024, 14:14) Like (19) Dislike (0) Reply
    how can you let a handcuffed man get away
  • age (04/01/2024, 14:19) Like (19) Dislike (2) Reply
    29? He looks more like 59.
    • @age (04/01/2024, 15:37) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
      The majority of black men on Tortola looks older than their actual age. I know someone who is 39 years old and he looks like he is pushing 50.
      • @@age (05/01/2024, 12:35) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
        Some of them look that way because they do not properly groom themselves, a man can have a beard but keep the beard trimed, if you have dreads, keep them maintained and looking healthy and clean not the rat nest or bird nest look, keep your finger nails clean and clipped, remove the dry cuticles that is growing on your nails. There is nothing wrong with a man having a facial or getting a manicure or a pedicure. I don’t date a man with scruffy facial hair, messed up toe nails or finger nails.
    • Hmm (06/01/2024, 11:38) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      people that know him understands why they had a HARD life
  • Well jeaze (04/01/2024, 14:23) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
    Uncle look way older than 29 years old. I was understanding that when a prisoner is taken to a health care facility for treatment they are supposed to be hand cuffed to a bed rail to avoid escape. I also don’t understand why prisoners hands is cuffed in the front rather than the back.Perhaps I am wrong but I look at it as a safety issue for both prisoner’s and officer’s.
    • @ @age (05/01/2024, 01:26) Like (3) Dislike (11) Reply
      You're right. Especially those with them stupid beard on their faces. I'm in my 40s a d is looking way younger than some of them in their teens and 20s.
  • Don’t do drugs kids (04/01/2024, 14:33) Like (74) Dislike (0) Reply
    That’s a rough looking 29. Uncle? More like grandpa
    • ras (04/01/2024, 15:52) Like (46) Dislike (16) Reply
      drugs age you
      • @ras (04/01/2024, 18:40) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
        You got that right, don’t forget that liquor and hard rum ages you as well. That liquor and hard rum eats up your liver. The reason I can say this is a uncle use to drink a lot of liquor and it ate up his liver, not even a liver transplant would have saved him.
  • Liat 521 (04/01/2024, 16:12) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    We no longer see the police as the custodian of our safety
  • HE LOOKS (04/01/2024, 17:04) Like (30) Dislike (2) Reply
    More like a crackhead / the police is supposed to be outside the door of the clinic , if it's a one way in and one way out , if there are other ways of escape hand cuff his two feet ( and then you all will be crying out , police police brutality , just like when the police had tasted the crackhead fonseca boy to control him , the now premier hollered out ( it was unnecessary brutality ) but it seems to have worked , he seems to be more cool now or for the time being
    • @HE LOOKS (04/01/2024, 18:49) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      He don’t look like a crack head he looks like he mess with nose candy.
  • Uncle (04/01/2024, 18:23) Like (13) Dislike (1) Reply
    Anybody have a spare handcuff key Virgin Gorda area? Asking for a friend
    • lonely (05/01/2024, 06:08) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
      He is right here in to Tortola. He did ask me for a ride coming down Johnson hill but I never stop because I know who he saw and I did thought that they just let him out as he done serve his time. That was either Sunday or Monday morning.
  • smh (04/01/2024, 18:29) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
    How a man in handcuff escape police custody we’ll hear joke got be them fat police went for he, them can’t run catch them at the grill outs eating bbq chicken every weekend
  • can you imagine (04/01/2024, 18:55) Like (10) Dislike (3) Reply
    If the police was carrying guns here on the Island? The escapees with their hands handcuffed in the front can grab the police gun and it’s a wrap.
  • solution (04/01/2024, 19:50) Like (4) Dislike (10) Reply
    Bring in some more white police and put them on the beat because blacks fraid ah whites
  • cc (04/01/2024, 20:02) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    He looks like his father 4 real maybe he up by his grandfather in fahie hill cooling out
  • WTF (05/01/2024, 06:14) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    This sudden and shocking news will be felt around the BVI
  • @ @ HE LOOKS (05/01/2024, 07:28) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Whether nose candy / Crack / cocaine or the white lady it's the same thing , check out their lips , it always looks like they are swollen and they always passing their tongue over their lips to keep them moist , those are some of the signs of a crackhead . The doctors needs to inform the people of these signs so we can check out anybody you comes in contact with , so you can deal with them cautiously because these individuals can flip out at anytime or anywhere without provocation and harm or even kill you / and then the report will be ( they were ( MENTALLY UNSTABLE ) after they done flex off on you ( sadly - am not an expert , but I do observe the known ones and give them space / because if they put their hands on me I will have to defend myself any way NECESSARY . they need to have a facility for these people / treating them and then releasing them into the same environment where they can get the same cocaine easily is just going around in circles . While people only interested in POWER . only when one flex off on one of those politicians or their families , then we might see them making an effort to do something constructive with those drug addicts that we have here loosed on the streets
  • Knowunc (08/01/2024, 01:09) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Yall so bashfull on here that man ain on nun but rum n a lil weed yall polititians is who on the nose candy and so forth talkin bout looks n all type of ish .....i know him personally n his upbringing! Most times he has more cash on him more than most yall in these comments yall haters


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