Nightclub DJ Charged with Assault and Vandalism in Love Triangle Dispute

Ivanka Pickering, asserting that their relationship was still active, faces multiple charges after a heated dispute over a cellphone at 3:00 a.m. at the man's residence, where he was with another woman

ST. THOMAS — A woman who said she was trying to retrieve her phone from a lover’s vehicle was arrested after entering his residence without permission, assaulting him, and smashing the windshield of his van. Ivanka Pickering appeared at the Leander Jurgen Command police station one afternoon in early August to tell police that she had been assaulted by a lover. She told them that she had been working as a nightclub DJ, and realized after her set that she did not have her cell phone. Remembering that she had left it in a man’s vehicle, she told police that she went to his residence to retrieve the device.

When she arrived, the woman said that the man was upset, because a female companion was in the house. Ms. Pickering reportedly told the man that she did not care about the other woman – she just wanted her phone. At that, the man reportedly shouted to her that she was never in his car, but Ms. Pickering admitted that she nevertheless forced her way inside the house because she was not about to leave without her phone.‌