{"id":71468,"date":"2019-02-15T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=71468"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:10:01","slug":"body-surfaces-near-cruz-bay-harbor-police-launch-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=71468","title":{"rendered":"Body Surfaces Near Cruz Bay Harbor; Police Launch Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ST. JOHN &#8212; The body of a black male individual was found floating in the Cruz Bay Harbor near the Customs dock Thursday morning, and police are investigating the matter, V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer Glen Dratte has announced. As of Thursday, foul play had not been suspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Dratte said officers and support units responded to the scene and discovered a body in the water floating at about 7:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased was identified by family members as 43-year-old Deon Stephen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case remains under investigation pending a medical examiner&#8217;s findings based on autopsy results, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If you have information about this occurrence, call the V.I.P.D.&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Bureau at 340-774-2211, or Crime Stoppers USVI with an anonymous tip <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"If you have information about this occurrence, call the V.I.P.D.'s Criminal Investigations Bureau at 340-774-2211 or Crime Stoppers with an anonymous tip here. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=737&amp;DSID=737\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOHN &#8212; The body of a black male individual was found floating in the Cruz Bay Harbor near the Customs dock Thursday morning, and police are investigating the matter, V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer Glen Dratte has announced. As of Thursday, foul play had not been suspected. Mr. Dratte said officers and support units responded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,147],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Body Surfaces Near Cruz Bay Harbor; Police Launch Investigation - V.I. 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