Police & Courts

Law enforcement officers at 1:50 p.m. Saturday, arrested 54-year-old Clifford H. Mattson of Annaly Estate and charged him with making fraudulent claims upon the government and sending or delivering false messages.

Police are investigating a report that a horse was killed Saturday in Estate Richmond on St. Croix. According to police the owner of the horse on Sunday visited the V.I. Police Department's Anselmo Marshall Command to report the horse had been killed.

The V.I. Police Department is investigating an assault that took place early Saturday in Frenchtown. According to police, the victim, a white male, reported that he had been assaulted in the Frenchtown area by two unknown suspects.

At about 1:45 p.m. Saturday, 30-year-old Hasani J. King of Michael J. Kirwan Terrace turned himself in to police and was arrested for an assault which occurred April 1.

Deron Dixon, a 35-year-old resident of Estate Little Princess who was shot early on Thursday, died of his injuries Saturday at Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital, making him the second homicide victim on St. Croix to have been shot on Thursday and die in the days following,

A chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2020 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as reported by the VIPD. Cases are broken down by island.

A man who was shot Thursday in an incident at Sion Farm on St. Croix died of his injuries at the Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital, the V.I. Police Department reported Friday.

Lamech Matthew, age 28, of St. Croix, was sentenced Thursday in the St. Croix District Court after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

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The V.I. Police Department is looking for 39-year-old Jean Connor in connection with a burglary incident that occurred on March 11 in the area of Palms Court Harbor View Hotel.