Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer

Published May 19, 2013 8:22pm ET



KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat.

In a statement issued late Saturday, the U.S. attorney’s office in the three-island U.S. Caribbean territory said Roberto Tapia was ordered held without bail pending a Tuesday hearing. He is the director of environmental enforcement for the Virgin Islands’ Department of Planning and Natural Resources.

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