5 illegals detained for possession of explosives! Boat captain charged
The following is a media release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) dated November 14, 2022.
Five persons were arrested for illegal entry into the BVI after officers of the Joint Task Force detected a vessel that travelled from the USVI into the BVI without making clearance late yesterday evening.
The five persons, two males and three females, all residents of St Thomas, USVI, were detained after searches of bags onboard the vessel yielded a firearm magazine with ten rounds of ammunition.
The boat was seized, and the occupants taken into Police custody. Apart from the charge of unlawful possession of ammunition, the captain of the vessel, Patrick Faudrois, 29, a native of Haiti, residing in St Thomas, was fined for various immigration and customs breaches.
He will appear in Magistrate’s Court at the next available sitting. The other four occupants were subsequently discharged.
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When the captain is caught and charged, his boat, house, businesses, bank accounts etc need to be held to pay for housing these illegal people and repatriate them to their country!! Stop putting this on poor bvi economy whilst these drug runners goings free. Wake up – drastic measures have to be taken to discourage these feckless black men from ruining their own country!!