Published on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo
repatriated 13 Dominicans, three Haitians and one Cuban to La Romana,
Dominican Republic on Tuesday, following an at-sea interdiction by
Caribbean Border Interagency Group law enforcement authorities on Monday.
Six other Dominican men were detained for prosecution for attempting to
enter illegally into the United States or a US territory on at least two
separate occasions. The US Attorney's Office in Puerto Rico accepted to
prosecute their cases.
The crew of the Key Largo located a migrant vessel Monday afternoon
while patrolling Mona Passage waters, approximately five nautical miles
east of Desecheo Island , Puerto Rico . The migrants, 18 men and five
women, including a male minor, were traveling illegally to Puerto Rico
from the Dominican Republic aboard a 22-foot-green wooden yola.
The crew of the Key Largo interdicted the migrant vessel and safely
embarked all 23 migrants. Once onboard the cutter, the crew of the Key
Largo collected the biographic information, including digital
fingerprints and facial photographs from the interdicted migrants, and
transferred custody of the six detained migrants Tuesday morning to
Border Patrol agents at the Port of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
The crew of the Key Largo repatriated the remaining migrants onboard at
7:10 p.m. Tuesday, when they turned custody over to Dominican Republic
Naval authorities in La Romana, Dominican Republic .
Caribbean Net News: Cuba (10 June 2009)
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/cuba/cuba.php?news_id=16995&start=0&category_id=5
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