The territory's former postmaster has been acquitted in Florida of charges that he raped a woman at a Tampa hotel in October 1997.
A three-man, three-woman jury found Louis Austin Jackson of St. Croix not guilty of all the charges against him, the Daily News reported Tuesday.
The newspaper quoted Jackson's attorney as saying he had successfully argued throughout the week-long trial that Jackson and the 41-year-old woman engaged only in consensual sex.
Jackson was fired by the Postal Service in May 1998 after an investigation by postal officials and the Florida State's Attorney's Office concluded that there was a possibility of a crime, the Daily News reported.
It could not be ascertained Tuesday whether Jackson will attempt to get his job back.