KEY WEST, Fla. — Coast Guard Sector Key West search-and-rescue coordinators have suspended the search for a vessel and four people that began Sunday afternoon pending additional information.
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Coast Guard searches for distressed boaters in the Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. – Coast Guard units are actively searching for a vessel and four people after receiving a call Sunday stating that they were in distress.
Coast Guard repatriates 12 Dominican migrants to La Romana Dominican Republic
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne repatriated twelve Dominican migrants to La Romana, Dominican Republic Friday, following an at-sea interdiction by Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) Law Enforcement authorities Thursday.
Coast Guard interdicts and repatriates four Cuban migrants
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Pea Island repatriated four Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Wednesday.
Coast Guard repatriates 35 Haitian migrants
Editors note: This story clarifies news reports concerning the Coast Guard’s role during an at-sea interdiction involving alleged migrant smugglers in command of an overloaded vessel with more than 100 Haitian migrants aboard.
MIAMI – The Coast Guard Cutter Reliance repatriated 35 Haitian migrants to Cap Haitien, Haiti, Wednesday, after a dangerously overloaded vessel with more [...]
Coast Guard repatriates 63 Cuban migrants
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur repatriated 63 Cuban migrants, from four seperate interdictions at sea within the past six days, to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, Wednesday.
Smugglers Sentenced to 573 Months in Prison
MIAMI — A U.S. District Court judge sentenced 14 convicted migrant smugglers to nearly 50 years imprisonment and 37 years supervised release during proceedings held Tuesday and Wednesday at Miami and Key West, Fla., courthouses.
On one of the ill-fated smuggling ventures, a Cuban migrant suffered a severe head injury while onboard the smuggling boat and [...]