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1 day ago | 
stjohnsource.com | Sian Cobb
Miguel Marrero should get 20 years in prison for shooting a mother and her daughter after an argument erupted between them on July 4, 2024, at a housing community on St. Croix, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday. Marrero, 53, who pleaded guilty to four counts in a plea deal in February, is due to be sentenced July 2 in District Court on St. Croix and has asked for a sentence of 10 years and one day, given the mitigating circumstances surrounding his case.
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3 days ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
Miguel Marrero should receive 10 years and 1 day for shooting a mother and her daughter on July 4, 2024, at a St. Croix housing community — not life in prison — according to his sentencing memorandum, which details years of bullying and abuse his family allegedly suffered at the hands of the victims in the case.
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2 weeks ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
Richardson Dangleben Jr. was arraigned Wednesday on a superseding indictment in the 2023 shooting death of V.I. Police Detective Delberth Phipps Jr., entering a plea of not guilty as more than a dozen VIPD officers who attended in support of their slain colleague watched from the public gallery at V.I. District Court on St. Thomas.
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3 weeks ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
An eyewitness to Thursday’s fatal shooting of beloved St. Croix comedian Jordan “Dutty Heart” Jones spoke Friday of a terrifying attack as he and some friends sat in a bar on the Christiansted boardwalk, including one who is a doctor and performed CPR on Jones in an effort to save him.
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1 month ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
While 2025 numbers are down slightly, the cruise industry is going strong and on track to reach record highs in 2026, West Indian Company Ltd. CEO Anthony Ottley told a meeting of the agency’s board of directors Friday. “I’m pleased to report that the cruise industry is healthy, booming and getting better. Fiscal year 2025 is projected to receive 280 ship calls with 938,000 passengers.
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1 month ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a V.I. District Court order that Caneel Bay on St. John belongs to the U.S. government and not EHI Acquisitions, the company that managed the property and its once-tony resort under an agreement with the National Park Service.
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1 month ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
The bankruptcy auction of Silver Airways is set for May 28 after a judge approved the terms proposed by the troubled airline and a stalking horse bidder — despite the $5.775 million offer falling far short of the roughly $400 million Silver owes its creditors. In an eloquent 20-page order, Judge Peter D. Russin of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida said he would allow the auction to proceed because key Silver creditors supported the move at a May 15 evidentiary hearing.
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1 month ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
If all goes to plan, the St. Thomas Federal Credit Union will be breaking ground on a new two-story, 10,000-square-foot operations center on a two-acre parcel of land just south of the Omar Brown Sr. Fire Station, according to a zoning hearing Monday for the proposed development. The credit union, which was chartered in 1952 and has served the community for 73 years, is currently located in the historic district at 5027 Norre Gade — the Allen A.
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1 month ago | 
stjohnsource.com | Sian Cobb
If all goes to plan, the St. Thomas Federal Credit Union will be breaking ground on a new two-story, 10,000-square-foot operations center on a two-acre parcel of land just south of the Omar Brown Sr. Fire Station, according to a zoning hearing Monday for the proposed development. The credit union, which was chartered in 1952 and has served the community for 73 years, is currently located in the historic district at 5027 Norre Gade — the Allen A.
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1 month ago | 
stthomassource.com | Sian Cobb
Chief District Judge Robert Molloy has denied the Justice Department’s request for a 120-day stay in the murder case of Richardson Dangleben Jr. in an opinion issued late Friday afternoon upbraiding the government’s last-minute bid to seek the death penalty more than a year after it said it would not.
