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Tensions heat up in Morne Du Don/Bois Patat following homicide
Tensions have escalated following the killing of Shem Peter last Thursday. Tensions between rival factions in the Morne Du Don/Bois Patat area in Castries have heated up with a shooting at about 11...
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UPDATE: Five armed men accosted homicide victim and survivor – police report
Cuthbert Joseph was shot while trying to escape. POLICE PRESS RELEASE - Officers attached to the Richfond Police Station are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident...
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Woman arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into prison
A 20-year-old Bagatelle woman is currently in police custody after she attempted to smuggle cannabis to an inmate at Bordelais Correctional Facility. The incident occurred at about 10:12 a.m. on...
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BREAKING NEWS: Wanted man now in police custody
The Police Press Office has confirmed that Marvin Gabriel, who is wanted for a shooting incident in Bois Patat, Castries, is now in police custody. Reports are that he turned himself in at around noon...
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LPM to host national consultation on crime
Police officers at the scene of a shooting in Faux A Chaud in December 2012. CASTRIES, St Lucia — The Lucian People’s Movement (LPM) has indicated that it will no longer rely on the government to take...
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Five in custody for drug bust off Dennery coast
Cannabis On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at about 11:37 pm, officers attached to the Marine Unit of the Southern Division intercepted a vessel named “Stranger” off the coast of Cap Marquis, Dennery,...
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Over 10,000 marijuana plants destroyed from 10 plantations
A eradication exercise by officers attached to the Drug Unit, Special Services Unit, Dennery and Richfond Police Stations was conducted in three communities at Dennery on Wednesday, September 11, 2013....
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“Benoit’s untimely death has stirred in me a grief and confusion”, says Gros...
Minister Emma Hippolyte Parliamentary Representative for Gros Islet Emma Hippolyte has expressed condolences to the family of Chereece Benoit who was found dead at her home in La Feuille, Monchy...
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LPM leader releases statement on latest homicide
LPM leader Therold Prudent It is very obvious this morning , that while the government of Saint Lucia was engaged in a futile exercise of self praise, our nation was once again subjected to a violent...
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UPDATE: Chereece Benoit was killed between late Thursday morning and midday –...
Officers attached to the Gros Islet Police Station have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 19-year-old Chereece Benoit of La Feuille, Monchy. The incident...
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Police make breakthrough in homicide case with another major drug bust
Cuthbert Joseph, aka Golda, and an elderly man were on their way to a marijuana plantation when an armed gang from outside the area accosted them. Joseph was shot and killed. Police are closer to...
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March and vigil to be held in honour of slain teenager
Chereece Benoit The St. Joseph’s Convent will be having a march in honour of 19-year-old Chereece Naomi Benoit of La Feuille, Monchy who was brutally murdered on Thursday, September 12. The march is...
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WIA challenges Prime Minister and Minister of Finance on government support...
The United Workers Party Women in Action (WIA) is concerned with the technical expertise and capacity of the Forensic Laboratory, in light of the many murders that remain unsolved to date....
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UPDATE: “Persons of interest” being interviewed in teenager’s homicide case
Funeral home workers removing the body of Chereece Benoit from the crime scene in Monchy. Police are interviewing “persons of interest” in relation to last week’s murder of 19-year-old Chereece Benoit...
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Jamaican national caught with cocaine
Cocaine A Jamaican national with Canadian citizenship is appearing in the First District Court in Gros Islet today, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 in connection with the discovery of cocaine in a guest...
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Benoit was strangled with cord-like object – post mortem results revealed
A post mortem has revealed that 19-year-old Chereece Benoit of La Feuille, Monchy died of asphyxia due to ligature strangulation – a type of strangulation while the body is on the ground using some...
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French vessel intercepted with drugs off Gros Piton
Cannabis Two Guadeloupian and a Vincentian national are now in police custody following the interception of a boat with drugs yesterday, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at about 5:45 p.m. The French...
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UPDATE: Shooting victim succumbs to injuries
The island has officially recorded its 29th homicide victim for this year. Twenty-four-year-old Chad Alexander of Black Mallet, Castries, who received a gunshot wound to the torso on Thursday, Oct. 31,...
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UPDATE: Shanice found
Shanice Emmanuel An 11-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Marchand, Castries this morning, has been found. Shanice Emmanuel was reportedly seen by two women walking on a bridge in San...
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Boat with cocaine intercepted
Cocaine Officers attached to the Marine Unit reported intercepting a vessel with a quantity of cocaine about 2:25 p.m. yesterday. The interception occurred approximately three nautical miles off Pigeon...
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