An adult cruise passenger, identified as Yorkiss Yazbek Montalvo Ramos, age 35, of Reynosa, Mexico, was arrested last weekend on a charge of lewd and lascivious touching of a minor after he grabbed a 17-year-old male’s penis while they were onboard the MSC Seascape, according to Miami’s Local 10 News.
Miami-Dade police said the incident happened at about 3 a.m. after adult passenger Ramos followed the teenager into a public bathroom.
Florida is the only state in the U.S. where local law enforcement, in addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), has statutory jurisdiction to investigate crimes which are alleged to occur on foreign owned and operated cruise ships in international waters (as long as the cruise ships leave from and return to a port in Florida). State police officers from the Miami-Dade County Police Department and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors from the Florida State Attorneys Office are far more likely to take crimes like this seriously than the FBI and U.S. Attorneys Office.
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Image credit: MSC Seascape – Rene Cortin CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; Yorkiss Yazbek Montalvo Ramos – Local 10 News.