{"id":48409,"date":"2017-01-23T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=48409"},"modified":"2017-01-23T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:34:41","slug":"police-arrest-man-accused-of-assaulting-and-strangling-girlfriend-beating-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=48409","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Man Accused Of Assaulting And Strangling Girlfriend, Beating Tourist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; The V.I.P.D. on Thursday arrested a man police have accused of assaulting and strangling his girlfriend, as well as beating a tourist in a separate incident, Sakeeda Freeman, the force&#8217;s media specialist announced over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 40-year-old\u00a0Oscar Eduardo Illescas-Gomez of Hull Bay, was charged with third-degree assault for the incident involving his girlfriend, which occurred on January 15, 2017, according to Ms. Freeman. He was also levied with a separate assault charge after o<span class=\"\">fficers from the Economic Crime Unit positively identified Mr. Illescas-Gomez as the person who assaulted a female tourist on December 29, 2016, while she was vacationing at a local hotel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">The assault took place on the beach, and the victim sustained a broken nose, several lacerations to her face and contusions to her jaw, according to police. <\/span>Mr.\u00a0Illescas-Gomez was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections pending his advise-of-rights hearing, after failing to make bail of $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with additional information about these incidents to contact the V.I.P.D. at 340-774-2211, or the Economic Crime Unit at 340-774-3942. &#8220;The information you provide continues to assist in reducing crime within the territory and leads to the arrest of the individuals responsible for senseless crimes,&#8221; reads the release.<\/p>\n<p>You can also send in your tip through Crime Stoppers USVI, where the information you provide <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=737&amp;DSID=737\" target=\"_blank\">may result in thousands of dollars in reward money to you<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; The V.I.P.D. on Thursday arrested a man police have accused of assaulting and strangling his girlfriend, as well as beating a tourist in a separate incident, Sakeeda Freeman, the force&#8217;s media specialist announced over the weekend. The suspect, 40-year-old\u00a0Oscar Eduardo Illescas-Gomez of Hull Bay, was charged with third-degree assault for the incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4400,191,147],"tags":[6373,3538,6374,121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police Arrest Man Accused Of Assaulting And Strangling Girlfriend, Beating Tourist - V.I. 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