4 TheVirgin Islands Daily News VIRGIN ISLANDS Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Poli tried t | t into pri By BRIAN O‘CONNOR the marijuana hidden in the personal they had smelled marijuana in a pair speaking, it’s pretty thorough.” The disposition of the murder Daily News Staff belongings of inmate Omari Gordon, of black Jordan sneakers Petersen Gordon, 32, has been in jail case involving Gordon couldn’t be ~~ according to Petersen’s arrest log. was bringing to Gordon, according to since police charged him with first- immediately ascertained Monday A Mon Bijou woman tried to sneak Rick Mullgrav, Director of the Bu- a VIPD press release. When correc- degree attempted murder and first- evening. two bags of marijuana into Golden _ reau of Corrections, said corrections _ tions officers pulled apart the sneak- degree assault following a Nov. 29 Gordon had been released on elec- Grove, police said. officers discovered the marijuana — ers, they discovered two small plastic shooting on St. Croix, authorities tronic monitoring and house arrest Sherifa Petersen, 27, faces a single during a routine search. bags of marijuana, according to the _ have said. pending trial in 2013, according to charge of introducing contraband Petersen “was bringing a pack- press release. Gordon’s name also matches that court documents at the time. into prison, and was free on $10,000 age for her companion, and I will Any material that ends up in the of a man charged in 2010 with the He was being held on $500,000 bail about six hours later, according say her companion, because I’m not hands of prisoners is thoroughly murder of 19-year-old Kendal Wood. _ bail in his most recent arrest, police to her arrest record. sure what the relationship was there,’ _ searched as a matter of routine, Mull- Gordon’s trial languished in the Su- _ said. VI. police arrested Petersen on Mullgrav said. “She was coming to grav said. perior Court on St. Croix for almost — Contact Brian O'Connor at Friday afternoon about 1:4