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The case against Sasha Hodge has been dismissed following a ruling that there is insufficient evidence to prove that she had possession of the over $400,000 that was ...
Magistrate Tamia Richards today insisted that there would be no further delays in the trial of two men who are accused of unlawfully cultivating cannabis. The trial ...
A resident of East End, who unsuccessfully requested that his drug case be put off for six months in order for him to pay his child’s college fee, is now ...
Businessman Betteto Frett has obtained an order from High Court Judge Justice Vickie Ann Ellis, halting the advertised sale of his beachfront property at Kingston on ...
The Crown indicated yesterday that it intends to determine whether the charge of intent to supply a controlled drug should be pursued against drug accused Allister ...
A mother of two today told the Magistrate’s Court that a disagreement surrounding the father of her two children and his alleged relationship with another ...
The Crown has announced that it is now in a position to proceed with the trial against Neal Dabreo before the Magistrate’s Court. When the matter came up for ...
Shakeem Smith today pleaded guilty to another charge of burglary when he appeared before Resident Magistrate Tamia Richards. The Crown told the court that it was the ...
Jahsheed Scatliffe, a 24 year-old college student, has been referred to Sandy Lane Centre for drug counseling and treatment. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards made ...
The Crown said it is ready for the trial of Wendell Anthony and Marvin Robinson, the police officers accused of assaulting Brandon George during an incident relating ...
Domingo Richards has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for handling stolen goods. He was hauled before the court after buying two wedding bands and a ...
A father of seven is accused of being cruel to one of his children, resulting in her having to seek treatment at hospital for a swollen eye. The court heard that the ...
Tevon Stapleton, 19, pleaded not guilty to the charge of burglary when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, April 23. He is accused of breaking into an ...
Murder accused and two-time prison escapee Jessroy McKelly is refuting a report published by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) that he tried to kill himself last ...
Jessroy McKelly, who escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison a few months ago while he was on remand awaiting trial for murder, was today sentenced for illegally freeing ...
“I went there from small,” Keevin Walker declared in the Magistrate’s Court today (April 17), moments after the Crown accused him of burglarizing the Willard ...
The old adage that lighting does not strike in one place twice does not seem to apply to 23 year-old Edwin Ortiz-Claxton who is facing a gun charge a second time ...
Tristan Brown, the Belonger in whose house police officers allegedly found 385 grams of cannabis and 35 rounds of ammunition, pleaded not guilty to three related ...
“…You see your friends?”, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards asked 23-year-old Rami Faisal Kayed who told the court that he ended up in possession of 16 dime ...
Pedro Samuel apologized in court on April 8 for entering a friend’s house and ‘borrowing’ his money without permission. The defendant who appeared ...
Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards had to explain the difference between a guilty plea and a not guilty plea at least twice before Liston Callwood understood and ...
Cordell O’Neal, who appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards yesterday (April 8), pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawful assault. O’Neal, the son of ...
A former BVI resident was found guilty in relation to the operation of fraudulent pyramid schemes through which she defrauded several BVI and USVI residents of more ...
Marvin Gumbs, the alleged mentally ill man accused of breaking the hand of a police officer, is still awaiting mental evaluation over a month after the incident. ...
A former maid of the Peter Island Resort accused of stealing money from a guest’s room was taken before the Magistrates Court on March 27 to answer to the ...
The Crown intends proceed with the trial against Jerome Allen, one of the two men charged in relation to the firearms and ammunition seized on board the Smith’s ...
Yan Edwards and Allen Baptiste have been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the gun murder of Kerri ‘Hank’ Harrigan. Harrigan was shot in the ...
One of the five men involved in the $11.4M drug bust in August 2012 pleaded guilty to some of the charges in the Magistrate’s Court on March 20. Defense ...
High Court Judge Justice Albert Redhead today handed down a 20-year prison sentence to confessed bank robber Royden Sebastien. The Belmont resident, on March 5 this ...
Two of the men who are part of the quartet facing drug and firearm charges are unsure about their legal representation and are expected to seek clarity from the law ...
Dean Callwood who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on March 19 in relation to his pending assault case announced that he was still in negotiations with an ...
Vincentian national Simeon Pope narrowly escaped Her Majesty’s Prison this morning, after being handed a suspended sentence for seven counts of obtaining property ...
The partners of O’Neal Webster are very pleased to announce that litigation partner, Paul Dennis, has been elevated to the rank of Queen’s Counsel. His ...
The Crown is expected to submit sentencing guidelines for defendant Domingo Richards who is before the Magistrate’s Court facing a charge of handling stolen ...
A woman who slammed the head of a coworker against an ice machine because of an alleged affair with her husband appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards on ...
Despite escaping immediate imprisonment when he was sentenced in the High Court today, bus driver Stedroy Matthew is about to face another legal battle. The St. ...
Collin St. Clair the Smith’s Ferry crew member who was arrested and charged for not declaring $13, 325 to the Customs Department in April 2012, will be ...
Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards expressed displeasure at the fact that defendant Bellony Caena is still on remand awaiting trial for drug possession charges. When ...
Police have cleared a 13 year-old male student who was suspected to have sexually assaulted a five year-old schoolmate here in the BVI. When the assault was ...
The case against Marvin Gumbs took an interesting turn in the Magistrate’s Court today. What should have been a clear-cut case against the alleged mentally ill ...
A new trial date will be fixed soon for the case involving Denny Hodge, the man who got into an altercation with his then pregnant girlfriend and caused her to have ...
Wednesday, February 27 – Magistrate Tamia Richards was asked again to vacate the February 4 guilty plea of defendant Domingo Richards Jr, because the defendant ...
Antigua St. John’s – Two Tortola nationals appeared in the High Court on Friday before Chief Justice Keith Thom. Luke Joseph and Lloyd Frett had ...
Kimbal Pickering appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards on January 20 to answer to the charges of common assault and destroying property. The offences, ...
“Did you ever hear that thief from thief make God laugh,” Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards told Shawn King who had stolen various electrical cables. In the case ...
Wakima Lettsome has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in relation to shooting incident that took place outside a bar at Crabbe Lot, also known as the Ghetto in ...
12 months imprisonment was the sentence Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards delivered today (February 15) to Ryanson Arrington, the young man who stole two boat engines ...
Donnell Blyden who was convicted of cannabis possession on in January today (February 15) told Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards that he feels that he was singled out ...
The case against Carlton Herbert, the Bregado Flax Educational Centre (BFEC) woodwork teacher who was slapped with seven indecent assault-related charges will be ...
“This sort of activity has to be pathological,” defence attorney Richard Rowe said after Principal Crown Counsel Tiffany Scatliffe informed the court today ...
Two Royal Virgin Islands Police Force officers accused of assaulting Brandon George – the Huntums Ghut teen who died in a motor vehicle accident last September ...
Amid lingering concerns about the treatment of fingerprint evidence in a burglary case brought before the High Court here on Tortola, the accused yesterday managed ...
First District representative Andrew Fahie and resident Petra Benjamin have lost their case against the National Bank of the Virgin islands in which they claimed ...
Loren Walwyn will spend a year at Her Majesty’s Prison for possession of an illegal nine millimetre firearm and eight rounds of ammunition. Senior ...
The case against Isaac Ragnauth, who is accused of assaulting his wife at their jointly-owned business, was adjourned again on February 7. When the matter came up ...
Bakembe George, one of the men accused of cultivating cannabis on Virgin Gorda, will be getting a new attorney the court heard today when the matter came up for ...
Two men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The defendants, Mustafa Claxton and Charles Plaza, both ...
The prosecution said it will call three witnesses and rely heavily on identity evidence as it tries to secure a guilty verdict against alleged burglar Chris ...
Crown Counsel Leslie-Ann Faulkner announced on January 30 that the Crown will call one witness on March 6 when the case against Salehe Todman goes to trial. Todman ...
The defense will make its case on March 1, when the matter of Sasha Hodge, who is charged with acquisition, possession, or use of proceeds of criminal conduct ...
Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards today sentenced the Puerto Rican trio of Ruben Nunez, Esteban Acevedo Tapia and Joel Hernandez to six months imprisonment for their ...
January 31 – Principal Crown Counsel Tiffany Scatliffe yesterday announced that Director of Public Prosecutions Wayne Rajbansie issued a notice of ...
Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards and Senior Crown Counsel Valston Graham both expressed concern at the recent increase in the number of domestic violence cases that ...
Royston Carey and Michael Ashby were free to go today after the robbery charge against them was dismissed because of want of the prosecution. Ashby and Carey were ...
A man who assaulted the mother of his child twice in one day and threatened to kill her with a knife was granted $50,000 bail signed with one surety when he appeared ...
