GOVERNMENT & POLICE NEWS
- Personnel, VIDOA and UVI Present Gardening Workshop
The Division of Personnel, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the University of the Virgin Islands’ Extension Services,…
Video Galleries
Image Galleries
Recent Forum Topics
Audio Galleries
The V.I. Police Department has a theme song, "Don't Run, Don't Hide," written by local musicians Fusion Band for use in the government television channel documentary, "V.I. Cops."
E-MAIL
PRINTOn March1 2010 a tourist and innocent bystander was attacked by a local Ashana Powell, Ashana was trying to attack another local. As reported it appeared it was no big deal. This female tourist returned to the states with slash marks from a broken beer bottle to her face and arms and a broken nose. She was not the only victim a gentleman that tried to help stop the crazy lady with a beer bottle was also slashed in the arm.
By March 5 at home in the states she had her left eye removed.
Ashana Powell was charged with 3rd degree assault. What about attempted murder or assault with a deadly weapon. A broken beer bottle can certainly kill. The victim has received no assistance from the organizations set up for victims. For the rest of her life she will be disfigured and what will happen to the alleged attacker?
True to form NOTHING if things continue as they have for years Is it 18 or 19 murders so far this year?
- Login to post comments
- Email this page
- Printer-friendly version
My wife and I were at Mojo's the early evening of the attack. A woman was running around screaming "help, my sister" when I got up and went to the entrance to see the victim sitting on the curb, her head covered in blood. I approached the only police officer there at that moment and asked him to transport the woman to the hospital in his SUV. He insisted that he could because he had a dog in the back, and that ambulance
was called. I told him to tie the dog to a tree and drive. Again he insisted he could not do that and wait for the ambulance. The hospital is about 2 minutes away for this location. By this time other officers began to arrive( a total of ten stood around), and I received the same comment, not in my vehicle- wait for the ambulance. After about ten minutes a stranger offer her a ride in the back of his pick-up truck. They left under a police escort. A few minutes later the ambulance did arrive. Maybe its police procedure to allow a tourist to lay there and bleed out in hopes that a ambulance will arrive. Well I HOPE there is some CHANGE before the tourist from America figure out what it is really like here in America's Paradise.
Bobby