🚨 DOCKET EXCLUSIVE: Flipping a Jeep Over a Guardrail Landed St. Thomas Man in Jail with BrAC Nearly 3x Legal Limit
By JOHN McCARTHY / St. Croix Sun Staff Writer
ST. THOMAS — Newly filed Superior Court dockets obtained by the Virgin Islands Free Press reveal the chaotic details of a Sunday afternoon wreck on Nicholas Friday Drive that ended with a flipped Jeep Wrangler, property damage, and a local man blowing nearly three times the legal limit.
Timothy C. Curry is facing multiple criminal traffic charges following his arrest on May 31, 2026.
The Crash Sequence at Estate Nadir
According to the sworn declaration of Traffic Investigation Bureau Officer Alicia T. Chemont, police units were dispatched at 2:46 p.m. to Nicholas Friday Drive, just east of the Kayak Tours.
Investigation records reveal that Curry was operating a silver 2021 four-door Jeep Wrangler with his wife, Susan Curry, in the front passenger seat. While traveling southward, Curry lost complete control of the vehicle, sideswiped the former Loveland Travels building located at #6616 Estate Nadir, violently careened over a roadside guardrail, and flipped the vehicle into the thick brush.
When Officer Chemont arrived, she found Curry sitting on the roadside next to a Waste Management Authority vehicle. The officer immediately detected a "strong odor of alcohol" emanating from Curry's breath and noted his eyes were bloodshot, red, and watery. Curry refused to answer when asked if he had been drinking, and he was so intoxicated he was unable to maintain his balance while sitting flat on the ground.
Nineteen Steps Instead of Nine: The Sobriety Test
Because Officer Chemont's transport unit was not equipped with a security cage, backup was called to transport Curry to Central Command. Once there, Traffic Captain Rosalyn Jarvis attempted to administer a Standardized Field Sobriety Test—with disastrous results.
During the "Walk and Turn" test, Curry could not maintain his balance and had to hold onto an office cabinet just to listen to the instructions. Once he started walking, Curry completely lost track of the test, taking 19 steps on the line instead of the instructed nine, while repeatedly grabbing the wall for balance. After spinning around, he took another 18 steps, stepping off the line immediately.
The "One Leg Stand" test was so unstable that Captain Jarvis had to abruptly discontinue it for Curry’s own physical safety to prevent him from falling hard onto the floor.
The Hammer Drops: A .215 Reading
Curry subsequently consented to an Intoxilyzer chemical breath test. The results were definitive: Curry registered a Blood Alcohol Content (BrAC) of .215, obliterating the territory's legal limit of .08.
Despite being verbally advised of his constitutional rights three separate times throughout the afternoon, Curry defiantly refused to sign his official Advice of Rights document.
Moving through the legal system with the kind of velocity Elon Musk reserves for a Falcon 9 launch, Curry was booked and charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Negligent Driving, and Illegal Blood Alcohol Content.
He was initially remanded to the John A. Bell Adult Correctional Facility on a $1,000 bail until his wife, Susan—the very passenger in the flipped vehicle—posted the cash for his release. Curry is legally ordered to appear for his Advice of Rights hearing at the Magistrate Court at Barbel Plaza South tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 8:00 a.m.
