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A.J. Pike St. Croix - On January 20, 2026, at approximately 4:00 pm, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of a man who attempted to strangle a woman during the course of a heated argument. Upon the arrival of responding Detectives, they made contact with the victim who disclosed that she and Mr. Elijah Drew, got into a verbal altercation. The woman went on to say that Mr. Drew became enraged during the argument and placed a choke hold on her, restricting her

A.J. Pike St. Croix - While on Patrol in Christiansted Town, on Saturday, January, 17, 2026, the Special Operations Bureau were notified of a male cursing profanity and causing a disturbance in the Pan Am Pavilion business area. An eyewitness claims he was screaming about someone chasing him. An Officer arrived on the scene and observed the male, later identified as 28-year old, Lafayette Artis, Jr., who then quickly exited the Pan Am Pavilion and eventually made his wa

A.J. Pike St. Croix - Three men were found shot to death with fatal gunshot wounds to their heads at the Estate Concordia Dumpsite, in Queen’s Quarter, early Monday morning, January 19, 2026. In what Police are calling a triple homicide, the victims have yet to be identified*. The report came in at approximately 8:00 am, when a citizen called into the 911 Emergency Call Center reporting that he found three men with gunshot wounds to the head near the garbage dumpsters

M.A. Dworkin USVI - The VI Police Department (VIPD)/ Office of Highway Safety’s (VIOHS) Occupant Protection Program Manager, Denise Gomes, received national recognition at the 20th annual 2025 Kidz In Motion (KIM) Conference held recently in Madison, Wisconsin. KIM is the largest international conference focused specifically on keeping children safe in vehicles. VIOHS Program Manager, Denise Gomes, was recognized for working “tirelessly to ensure that every child

A.J. Pike St. Croix - On January 2, 2026, at around 12:39 am, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of an altercation between a male and female at a residence in Upper Love. Shortly thereafter, ShotSpotter notified VIPD that four shots were fired at the same location. Police Officers from the Patrol Division arrived on the scene and were informed by the female complainant that Edwardo Garcia Jr. fired shots at her. Officers immediately took Mr. Garcia Jr. into cust

A.J. Pike St. Croix - ShotSpotter detected around 30 rounds fired in the vicinity of Hospital Street in Frederiksted early Wednesday morning, sometime after 9:30 am, December 31, 2025, as residents also reported hearing numerous gunshots ringing out in the area. According to information from the 911 Emergency Call Center, hospital personnel in the Emergency Room at Juan F. Luis Hospital (JFL) reported that a gunshot victim had been brought to the hospital via private v

A.J. Pike St. Croix - At approximately 8 pm on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the 911 VITEMA Emergency Call Center received several reports of shots fired in Estate Rattan and the reports indicated that two people had been shot. Officers responded to the call and found a woman lying unresponsive on the ground and a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency medical personnel also responded to the call and upon examination pronounced the female dead at the scene. The

A.J. Pike St. Croix - At approximately 1:15 pm on Saturday, December 27, 2025, the 911 Emergency Call Center received several calls relating to a shooting near the Crab Queen seafood restaurant in Estate Glynn, St. Croix. VIPD officers responded to the scene and immediately found an unresponsive male inside a vehicle. The victim, who was later identified as D’Andre Friday, age 25, was slumped over in the driver’s seat where he had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to

A.J. Pike St. Thomas - A reckless car crash on St. Thomas’ Veterans Drive in the early morning hours of Christmas Day caused the death of a pedestrian and the driver of the vehicle. VIPD reported that the car was apparently speeding when traveling westbound on Veterans Drive when it lost control in the vicinity of Rue de St. Barthelemy, and ran up on the curb, continuing along the sidewalk where it struck a pedestrian who was walking on the south side of the roadway. A

A.J. Pike St. Croix - On November 22, 2025, at around 9:54 pm, the 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched patrol units to a reported domestic disturbance at Estate Richmond, St. Croix. Detectives of the Criminal Investigation Bureau who were assigned to investigate the case, found there was a heated family dispute over internet service. The suspect, identified as 21-year old Chrismel Berra, allegedly went berserk and assaulted two older adult female family members over

A.J. Pike St. Croix - The Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) has been investigating a series of vehicular hit and run and physical assaults that have taken place over the past few weeks. With a recent incident on Friday, November 28, 2025, in LaGrange, Frederiksted at around 6:30 am, where a woman was physically attacked causing injuries. Another incident occurred on October 23, 2025, at about 5:55 pm, at the Villa La Reine, Pueblo parking lot, where a pedestrian was hi

A.J. Pike St. Croix - The St. Croix 911 Emergency Call Center received a radio transmission from an officer on Thursday November 27, 2025, at around 11:40 pm regarding shots fired on Northside Road in the vicinity of Pueblo Supermarket in Golden Rock, Christiansted. Upon arrival, the officers found a vehicle with two males who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. They were transported by ambulance to the Juan F. Luis Hospital. One male sustained a non-life-threatenin