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UPDATE: 17 suspected illegal immigrants nabbed @ Cox Heath

April 20th, 2024 | Tags: illegal immigrants Cox Heath police car detained
According to reports reaching our news centre, the alleged illegal aliens were being transported in a vehicle when they were stopped by police at Cox Heath just before 8:00 AM today, April 19, 2024. Photo: Team of Reporters
Heavy police presence at Cox Heath where suspected illegal immigrants were being held this morning, April 19, 2024. Photo: Team of Reporters
Heavy police presence at Cox Heath where suspected illegal immigrants were being held this morning, April 19, 2024. Photo: Team of Reporters
COX HEATH, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force is seeking help to identify some 17 suspected illegal immigrants nabbed after the force received an anonymous call shortly after 6 a.m. on Friday, April 19.

The call was over the sighting of suspicious individuals disembarking from a boat on the seaside at Cox Heath.

Responding to the call, police said they discovered seventeen individuals of multiple nationalities, suspected to be illegal immigrants, comprising of adults and children, concealed within the bushes at Cox Heath. Subsequent search efforts also uncovered two more individuals.

The RVIPF is seeking assistance in identifying and apprehending these persons, "if you notice anyone unfamiliar, please contact the RVIPF Intelligence Unit at 368-9339 or the Immigration Department," they said. 

The apprehended immigrants were handed over to the Immigration Department.

Police said investigations into the matter are ongoing.

See previous story published yesterday, April 19, 2024

Suspected illegal immigrants rounded up on Tortola

COX HEATH, Tortola, VI- Several suspected illegal immigrants have been nabbed by police in the Cox Heath area of Tortola.

According to reports reaching our news centre, the alleged illegal aliens were being transported in a vehicle when they were stopped by police at Cox Heath just before 8:00 AM today, April 19, 2024.

The persons rounded up were seen sitting at the side of the road up to the time of publication.

Reports are that at least eight persons have been detained.

Our news centre is working on more details for this story.

29 Responses to “UPDATE: 17 suspected illegal immigrants nabbed @ Cox Heath”

  • ... (19/04/2024, 08:41) Like (19) Dislike (7) Reply
    Well shoot if whole people are getting in what hope is there to control weapons & drugs. Might as well regulate the gun, drugs & would be immigrants because this what we have currently is not working.
  • Curious (19/04/2024, 09:22) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Eight immigrants in one vehicle
  • El Demonio Negro (19/04/2024, 09:30) Like (10) Dislike (2) Reply
    Don't worry the business people with the last name will pick out some to pay low wages. Send the rest back who can't read or write.
  • WOW (19/04/2024, 09:39) Like (25) Dislike (6) Reply
    I am shocked and perturbed. My goodness gracious, So you mean people are still being smuggled? Does this mean drugs are still being smuggled to?
    • WOW (19/04/2024, 15:55) Like (23) Dislike (5) Reply
      Take your head out of your arsenine. It never stopped, not here, not anywhere
      • Guest (19/04/2024, 19:08) Like (14) Dislike (5) Reply
        Hi imbecile there is a word called sarcasm look it up. Some of you are so anxious to spill the little you do know that things truly go over your feeble minds…….
    • See (19/04/2024, 16:08) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
      You can't be that naive or dumb . Drugs are everywhere as are guns and corrupt officials.
      • hmm (20/04/2024, 10:16) Like (5) Dislike (3) Reply
        sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
        "she didn't like the note of sarcasm in his voice"
  • long time now (19/04/2024, 09:55) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
    Open points of entry. West End Jetty, Frenchman's Cay dock and Jolly Roger dock.
  • .... (19/04/2024, 10:56) Like (13) Dislike (3) Reply
    sad part is most of the time they aint even come in illegal we the let them in just never check to see if they went back out....fight for a better life #the Trade
  • Hmm (19/04/2024, 13:45) Like (6) Dislike (5) Reply
    There is more coming in over the weekend…check the boards!! Don’t let them enter the island!! They are coming here to do there criminal work!! Please take note!!!!
  • 2024 (19/04/2024, 14:06) Like (13) Dislike (3) Reply
    The Governor of this British Overseas Territory holds the Responsibility for the Security of the Border

    No Firearms are made in this territory yet guns all over the villages

    Bundles of Cocaine coming on Land. There is a Hole in Border Security

    Human trafficking is on the increase these days so what is being done

    One hope with the Opening of that Marine Base some of the Holes in Border Security can be mended

    • hmm (20/04/2024, 10:19) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
      and the government proposes the budget and the HOA has final approval. Have you already forgotten how the previous Governor wanted to bring in the UK Navy to secure our borders during COVID-19 pandemic and the previous government blocked it and hired their colleagues' barges instead? Kindly remove your head from the sand.
  • Well (19/04/2024, 14:58) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    we hear of apprehension, what happen to repatriation. where is the last group?
  • Hotelia (19/04/2024, 15:11) Like (11) Dislike (1) Reply
    Somebody hotel going to make money today!
  • jack@$$ (19/04/2024, 15:59) Like (11) Dislike (9) Reply
    Some of you post like you think we're a land locked continent to ourselves. Our borders are open waters with imaginary lines. We are a territory of very small islands surrounded by water and neighboring countries that don't have much currency and some don't have stable governments. People will do whatever they can to escape certain death where they are, have a heart and some level of understanding. Even Christ had to flee his homeland. There will always be illegal immigrants on the move, there's nothing anyone can do to stop that. Even here in our territory many local families were off on a Cay somewhere, Salt/Peter/etc and they moved to Tortola or VG, it's what people do.
  • Legal Immigrant (19/04/2024, 16:18) Like (6) Dislike (6) Reply
    They're just the new police recruits and the premiers family.
  • Wellsah (19/04/2024, 18:07) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    watch and see the UK will limit the power of a BVI passport because the borders aren't secure and weak residency requirements
  • Oh yes! (19/04/2024, 18:52) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
    Please check that house in John's Hole. There are plenty of them there.
  • pat (19/04/2024, 18:58) Like (1) Dislike (14) Reply
    Let my people go free the drew
  • @ 2024 ( aka ) the wigged one (19/04/2024, 20:22) Like (13) Dislike (4) Reply
    Yeah rite ,) when the the governor and the UK offered to send their royal navy to protect our border for FREE , why didn't you open your trap and say something when your master DREW bluntly refused and CHOOSED to rent those barges , as if they are more sophisticated than the Royal navy / instead you down there hollering out (FREE THE DREW ) and he up here trying ~ AH TRUMP TING ~ called procrastination , niggA go play wit your WIG please
  • Boo (20/04/2024, 10:20) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Check the slum apartment on the key next to the big bank. You will probably find hoards of them in there.
  • Immigration (20/04/2024, 14:04) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    one of the illegals has gotten away with owning a bar in Carrot Bay and being 'lookout' for big cocaine and heroin sales behind the place. But he himself can't cook.
  • Sam (20/04/2024, 17:06) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    If this was a true concern for the UK they would apply pressure to have this issue addressed. During COVID the security council said that it would look into purchasing radar systems. What happened to those plans? The National Security Council no longer barks and it certainly has no bite. Until we prove that we are serious, it will only get worse.
  • Burning (20/04/2024, 22:06) Like (0) Dislike (7) Reply
    THEY SAY ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS YET THE GOVERNOR DEM ARE THE ONE ILLIGALLY OCCUPYING OUR STOLEN LAND YET NOTHING IS SAID AND DOWN ABOUT THEM WHO ARE YOUR OPPRESSORS. POLICE ARE SET UP JUST LIKE HOW IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF SLAVERY JUST THEIR NAMES CHANGE
  • … (20/04/2024, 22:30) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Immigration just lesss
  • Hmm (21/04/2024, 07:14) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    It was more of them go in the bush for them get them out of the island there here for no good
  • @BURNING ???? (21/04/2024, 11:42) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    you need to go back in the bu
    sh and burn your weed , coke , heroine or whatever and sing you slavery song to yourself , @ oh yes , you forgot long bush and what
    used to be upper main street , it's now a Spanish ghetto , there is a lot of new faces both males and don't talk about the females ( aka ) whorez , live meat on sale - day & night / ah bmho say it again , leave that Spanish food alone , otherwise you will get hooked on either coke , heroine or some sweet food ( aka ) * SWEAT * food


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