<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>US Virgin Islands: Cannabis Enforcement Tracker</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/vi/</link><description>New reports of cannabis enforcement in US Virgin Islands.</description><language>en</language><item><title>$18,000 hemp inventory seized in St. Thomas shop raid</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-thomas-homegrown-hemp-seizure-2025/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-thomas-homegrown-hemp-seizure-2025/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>US Virgin Islands, 2025-04-29. Virgin Islands agents seized about $18,000 in hemp-derived products from Homegrown Bar and Grill's St. Thomas store on 29 April 2025, the retailer alleges. The licensed retailer says the warrantless seizure was uncompensated and is challenging it and the later Act 9072 surrender rule in federal court.</description></item><item><title>Four Jamaicans held after 3,736 lb marijuana seizure off Haiti</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tiburon-haiti-3736lb-marijuana-interdiction/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/tiburon-haiti-3736lb-marijuana-interdiction/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Seizure</category><description>US Virgin Islands, 2024-04-30. U.S. Coast Guard cutters Resolute and Mohawk intercepted a go-fast vessel about 14 nautical miles off Tiburon, Haiti, on 30 April 2024, apprehending four Jamaican men and seizing 3,736 pounds (about 1,694.62 kg) of marijuana valued by the Coast Guard at more than $3.5 million. A federal jury convicted Miguel Orr and Romaine Betty in January 2026, with sentencing scheduled for 22 May 2026.</description></item><item><title>Woman arrested over marijuana in sneaker soles at Golden Grove prison</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-croix-golden-grove-sneakers-marijuana-arrest-2016/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-croix-golden-grove-sneakers-marijuana-arrest-2016/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Arrest</category><description>US Virgin Islands, 2016-12-09. A 28-year-old woman, Sherifa Petersen, was arrested and charged with introducing narcotics into the Golden Grove Correctional Facility on St. Croix after officers found two small bags of marijuana in the soles of a pair of sneakers she brought for an inmate. Police were sent to the prison at 1:38 p.m. on Friday, 9 December 2016.</description></item><item><title>DEA eradicates almost 10,000 marijuana plants across St. Croix</title><link>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-croix-dea-10000-plants-2008/</link><guid>https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/st-croix-dea-10000-plants-2008/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Eradication</category><description>US Virgin Islands, 2008-06-20. The DEA's Caribbean Division reported that Operation No Plant Left Behind eradicated almost 10,000 marijuana plants from 80 fields across St. Croix in a seven-day sweep ending on 20 June 2008, a record for the island.</description></item></channel></rss>