The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD), in coordination with federal law enforcement partners, actively responded to recent threats targeting schools in the St. Croix District. All public schools in the St. Croix District were closed on Monday, August 25, 2025, out of an abundance of caution to protect students, faculty, and staff. Heightened security measures were also implemented across both districts, with VIPD carrying out precautionary searches in the St. Thomas–St. John District. Schools in the ST. John District remained open, as no active threats were reported there.
U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea announces that 43-year-old Alan Motta, was arrested on Friday, August 15, 2025, for failing to comply with mandatory registration requirements for sex offenders in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Motta, a Tier 3 registered offender, failed to update his registration information with the Virgin Islands Department of Justice (VIDOJ), as required by law.
U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea announced that on July 21, 2025, the Honorable Judge Ernest E. Morris sentenced 48-year-old Anson Gallaway of Estate Frydendal St. Thomas, to 5 years’ probation for Obtaining Money by False Pretense in V.I. Superior Court. Gallaway pled guilty on April 30, 2025, to taking money from multiple individuals in St. Thomas and St. Croix between February 2020 and December 2021 for the construction of prefabricated homes but failed to fulfill his contractual obligations.
U.S. Virgin Islands – V.I. Attorney General Gordon C. Rhea, along with the Access and Visitation Program (AVP) within the Paternity and Child Support Division (PCSD) at the V.I. Department of Justice (DOJ), has issued a call to action for parents, guardians, fathers, male caregivers, and father figures to accompany their children on the first day of school in support of National DADS Take Your Child to School Day. Together, they aim to foster positive family involvement as the new school year begins.
U.S. Virgin Islands – The V.I. Department of Justice (DOJ) Paternity and Child Support Division’s Access and Visitation Program (AVP), in partnership with the Department of Sports, Parks and Recreation, recently hosted two energetic and family-friendly Father’s Initiative Back-to-School Fun Day & School Supply Giveaway events—first on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at Emile Griffith Park in St. Thomas, and then on July 26, 2025, at the National Park Ballfield in St. John.