Coast Guard stops boat overloaded with migrants off the Keys
By David Goodhue Updated January 28, 2022 6:01
PM A center console boat the U.S. Coast Guard said was used to smuggle 27 people from Cuba to the United States Sunday, Jan. 23, is tied to a dock. A center console boat the U.S. Coast Guard said was used to smuggle 27 people from Cuba to the United States Sunday, Jan. 23, is tied to a dock.
U.S. Coast Guard Federal agents say a man borrowed his friend’s boat last Friday and used it to pick up 27 migrants from Cuba to bring them back to the United States. But Julio Borges Barrero, 31, was stopped about 11 nautical miles southeast of Marathon in the Middle Florida Keys around 4:30 a.m. two days later by a Coast Guard patrol.
On board the 28-foot Proline center console boat were 27 people from Cuba, according to a complaint filed Thursday by an agent with Homeland Security Investigations.
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