Migrant vessel
MIAMI, USA – The US Coast Guard interdicted 33 migrants on Monday approximately 35 miles northeast of Tortuga, Haiti, attempting to enter the United States illegally.
At approximately 7:30 am, the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer crew detected an overloaded 25-foot motor vessel and launched an Over the Horizon small boat crew. While en route, the small boat crew recovered six softball-sized packages of marijuana floating approximately 100 yards from the vessel. The small boat crew then boarded the vessel and discovered 27 adult Haitian males, six adult Haitian females, three additional packages of marijuana and a package that tested positive for amphetamines.
The Spencer crew safely embarked the 33 migrants, transferred the interdicted drugs aboard the cutter and destroyed the vessel as a hazard to navigation.
