(U.S. Virgin Islands)- V.I. Attorney General Denise George announces the arrest by V.I. Dept. of Justice (VIDOJ) Special Agents of a man charged with financial exploitation and defrauding an elderly man by taking advantage of the man’s deteriorated condition. VIDOJ Special agents arrested Ricardo Algarin on April 6, 2022, in Miami, Florida on several charges in a 15 Count Information.
(U.S. Virgin Islands)- V.I. Attorney General Denise George has announced that 38-year-old Jose E. Encarnacion, a registered sex offender, was arrested by V.I. Dept. of Justice (VIDOJ) Special Agents (SID), and the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unit on St. Croix today.
U.S. Virgin Islands) – Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George announced today, a $3M settlement with the Terminix pest control company. The settlement stems from a 2017 lawsuit the Attorney General’s Office filed against Terminix after a family of four vacationing at the Sirenusa Resort on St. John in March 2015 became seriously ill when the unit below them was fumigated.
(U.S. Virgin Islands)- V.I. Attorney General Denise George announces the arrest of Department of Human Services employee, Edith Brathwaite of St. Thomas by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) of the V.I. Dept. of Justice (VIDOJ) for allegedly defrauding the Virgin Islands Medicaid program. The arrest arose from a joint fraud investigation by the MFCU, the V.I. Inspector General’s Office and the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG).
(U.S. Virgin Islands)- V.I. Attorney General Denise George announces that Kenson Barley was sentenced in the Superior Court for Unlawful Sexual Contact in the First Degree stemming from his sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl in St. Croix in 2019. Barley received 10 years imprisonment for Unlawful Sexual Contact First Degree.