Coast Guard intercepts a migrant boat with nearly 100 people from Haiti on board
The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday returned to Haiti almost 100 people who were stopped offshore of the island country in an overloaded migrant boat last week, the agency said.
The 99 people were intercepted Thursday about 35 miles north of Cap-Hatien, Haiti, packed into a 35-foot boat that was heading north toward the Turks and Caicos, the Coast Guard said in a statement.
They were returned to their home country Tuesday aboard the Cutter Seneca, the agency said.
'The Coast Guard remains steadfast in our defense of the U.S. maritime borders and approaches with patrols in the Florida Straits, Windward and Mona Passages to interdict unlawful maritime migration attempts before they reach our shores,' Lt. Cmdr. Brent Pearson, Coast Guard liaison officer to U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, said in a statement. 'Attempting illegal migration in overloaded, unsafe vessels with no safety equipment is extremely dangerous and puts you and your loved one's lives at risk. Don't take to the sea just to be sent back.'
Since October, the Coast Guard said it has intercepted 412 people from Haiti attempting to leave the country by sea. From Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 31, U.S. authorities repatriated 857 people stopped at sea, according to the Coast Guard.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Yahoo
Orleans mother suspects foul play in daughter's Riverwalk death
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — 20-year-old Jameshia Selders went out in New Orleans with a group of friends but never returned home. According to the Coast Guard, Selders fell into the Mississippi river by the Riverwalk at around 1 a.m. and has not been found since. 'Somebody just help me find my daughter,' Duplessis said. 'It's important to me if I can just get my daughter back with the family and get my daughter a decent burial funeral.'' Two killed in Jefferson Parish car crash Duplessis says that her final conversations with her daughter were normal. Selders even said she would be home that night. Just hours later though, Duplessis received the worst phone call of her life. The coast guard would then spend hours searching but to no avail. 'We had people out here searching with helicopters,' Duplessis said. 'It was late. They tried. We shut down at 3 something in the morning. They said they would come back out in the morning and try to find my daughter. Still not getting any answers.' West Nile Virus detected in New Orleans mosquitoes, city expands control measures According to Duplessis, Selders' friends say that she jumped in. However, Duplessis claims there is more to the story. She believes that her daughter was killed by those she was with. 'My daughter would never throw herself in the river,' Duplessis said. 'My daughter knows how to swim and she's not just going to throw herself in the river. She didn't have any problems.' Duplessis claims that some of Selders' friends have acted suspicious since that night such as deleting social media accounts. 'I mean I got some that deactivated their Instagram page, deactivated their Facebook page,' Duplessis said. 'I mean if you had nothing to do with it, why would you deactivate your information.' As of today, the NOPD has ruled the death a suicide. However, the report for the incident is mother suspects foul play in daughter's Riverwalk death West Nile Virus detected in New Orleans mosquitoes, city expands control measures Two killed in Jefferson Parish car crash Hardline House conservatives swing for fences in asks to Senate GOP on megabill Start times for Men's College World Series revealed Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
E&E News
a day ago
- E&E News
Worker dies aboard vessel working on Empire Wind
A crew member died last week while aboard a vessel working on Empire Wind 1, an offshore wind project near New York. The incident occurred June 2 aboard the Polaris, a U.S. flagged supply vessel operated by Tidewater. The fatality was confirmed by Equinor, the project developer, which said the incident occurred while a crew member was performing vessel maintenance on a ship preparing to work on Empire Wind. Additional details were not released. 'This is a tragic marine accident,' said Molly Morris, senior vice president for Equinor Renewables Americas. 'Our thoughts are with the family, friends, and colleagues who have lost a loved one. We extend our deepest condolences to all those affected.' Advertisement The Coast Guard command center in New York 'was notified of a medevac on the vessel POLARIS and reported that a crew member was unconscious from being electrocuted,' said Coast Guard spokesperson Breanna Boardman. At the time, the 'vessel was about 27 miles off the New York Harbor' and a rescue swimmer landed and the crew member was transported to the hospital for treatment, Boardman said.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Fox News
More than 20 people injured after boat catches fire in New York; captain charged with DWI
A boat captain was arrested after the vessel caught fire and injured more than 20 people near City Island in The Bronx over the weekend. Joshua Brito, 33, was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless endangerment following the incident that happened on Saturday at around 8 p.m. near the east end of Hart Island, according to WABC. The 22 people on the boat were injured, including one person in critical condition. According to officials, Marine 4, a New York City Fire Department vessel, was doing a routine patrol in the area when the boat on fire was spotted in the Long Island Sound. Marine units pulled three people from the water while 19 others swam to shore on Hart Island before they were transported by Coast Guard, police and fire department units to nearby City Island to receive further medical evaluation at a hospital. "Marine 4 gave a verbal for a boat fire and multiple people in the water to the Bronx dispatcher," New York City Fire Department Assistant Chief Mike Meyers said in a statement. "At that point, the Bronx dispatcher had land units respond to come into City Island and begin to accept patients. Marine 4 grabbed three people out of the water. At that point, they transported them to one of the docks that was close by, where Engine 70 was waiting and EMS was waiting as well to begin CPR on the victims." "The other 19 folks swam to Hart Island," he continued. "They were just off the east end of Hart Island, and then they were picked up by the NYPD Coast Guard and FDNY boats and transported back over to the docks at the Yacht Club on City Island." Authorities continue to investigate the cause of the fire. "The boat, in order to fit that many people on it, had to be a pretty decent-sized boat," Meyers told reporters at the scene on Saturday. "Marine 4 did notice them earlier in the evening and they said there was a lot of people on that boat."
