June 24, 2002 – A man was charged in District Court on Monday with possession of stolen property following his arrest early Saturday after authorities found him and two other men with a motorcycle in a small boat at Cinnamon Bay on St. John.
Densil Winston Osborne was charged with possession of stolen property after V.I. National Park rangers found that part of the motorcycle's serial number had been altered. They also could find no record of sale for the motorcycle in the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to court papers.
According to an affidavit signed by Troy Williams, V.I. National Park ranger, boaters aboard another vessel moored at Cinnamon Bay called the U.S. Coast Guard early Saturday morning to report the suspicious behavior of three men in a small boat.
The boaters believed the men were trying to steal their dinghy or fuel, Williams wrote.
When Williams and another ranger reached the scene, they found Osborne and two other men in a 16-foot boat with a Suzuki motorcycle, Williams wrote. When the men couldn't explain why they had a motorcycle in a small boat in the middle of the night, the rangers towed their vessel to Cruz Bay to take the men ashore for questioning.
Osborne then told them that he had arranged with a man he knew as "Scrap" to pick up the Suzuki at a pier near Coki Point, Williams stated. Osborne said he had arranged to pay $5,000 to Scrap for the machine and had traveled from Tortola with the two other men to pick it up, Williams wrote.
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