U.S. customs agents in Miami arrested rapper "Big Boi," of the hip-hop duo "OutKast," on drug possession charges as he disembarked a cruise ship.
TMZ reports that Big Boi (real name Antwan Patton), had "ecstasy pills, MDMA powder and Viagra" in his luggage as he was leaving the unidentified cruise ship after it returned to the Port of Miami.
It apparently is a felony
The cops in Bermuda love to bust American tourists with small amounts of pot, even if the pot never leaves the cruise ship.
In April, I wrote an article about Bermudan customs officers and police who boarded a cruise ship with a drug sniffing dog and found seven homemade cigarettes in the passenger cabin’s safe. The cruise passenger was
This week we reported on a cruise bust on a cruise ship in the Cayman Islands involving a group of crew members from Jamaica and St. Vincent. It sounds like the drug busts we reported on involving Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas and the Enchantment of the Seas.
There is no question that drug smuggling on cruise ships
Cayman News Service reports that three crew members were arrested for possession of two kilos of cocaine. The cruise employees were from St. Vincent and Jamaica.
As is often the case, the local police did not identify the name of the cruise ship or cruise line.
The three cruise ships in port at the time of the arrest were Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas
The Jamaica Observer is reporting conflicting stories about a large drug bust on a cruise ship in Montego Bay yesterday. The cruise ship had sailed from Columbia.
In one article, the newspaper reports that 50 pounds of cocaine valued at over one million dollars (U.S.) was seized yesterday from a cruise ship in Montego Bay Jamaica. 22
A Court in Bermuda sentenced a Royal Caribbean waiter, Ricardo Stewart, 32, of Ochos Rios Jamaica, to 15 years in prison for organizing the smuggling of cocaine on the Explorer of the Seas. We reported on the story in a prior article – Another Royal Caribbean Crew Member Busted for Drug Smuggling.
There are articles on line from Bermuda
Earlier this week, we blogged about the prevalence of drugs on the Atlantis gay parties on Royal Caribbean cruise ships and asked whether the cruise line was prepared to deal with problems as the Allure of the Seas sailed this week – Is Royal Caribbean Ready for Medical Emergencies During the World’s Largest Gay Cruise?
We
In the last couple of weeks we have reported on a Royal Caribbean drug ring smuggling large quantities of heroin and cocaine on the Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship into Baltimore from the Caribbean islands. The cruise line’s spin? Drug running is rare. Our take – its business as usual.
So here we go again.
The Royal Gazette
Federal and local agents with K-9 dogs raided the MSC Poesia earlier this week looking to arrest passengers with drugs.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S.Marshals Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Broward Sheriff’s Office participated in the raid.
The raid targeted the cruise ship right at Port Everglades in Fort
Today, two stories broke about cruise ship crimes issues.
The first story involved three Royal Caribbean crew members arrested for trying to smuggle drugs into Baltimore from the Dominican Republic via Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas cruise ship. We have written a lot about passengers and crew members using cruise ships to smuggle drugs. Earlier this year, passengers
U.S. Customs busted four passengers for drugs in two separate incidents this week aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas cruise ship.
Accordingly to Hispanically Speaking News, U.S. Customs officers seized cocaine and heroin aboard the Serenade of the Seas when the cruise ship was docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Customs officers conducted a random inspection
The Royal Gazette newspaper reports that the police in Bermuda arrested two American cruise passengers for a small amount of pot and a Taser gun in their cruise ship cabin.
Passengers Virginians Kymberly Taylor and Shayla Reid were sailing aboard Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas. After the cruise ship arrived in Bermuda, police officers boarded the cruise ship
In a stunning and unexpected end to the trial involving the death of P and O Cruises passenger Dianne Brimble, the prosecution dropped a manslaughter charge against fellow cruise passenger Mark Wilhelm.
Australia’s Herald Sun reports that Wilhelm pled guilty to supplying the date rape drug GHB to Ms. Brimble in exchange for being released from the manslaughter
RadioJamaica.com reports that an American and a Serbian were arrested this week in Jamaica on drug charges after cruising to Ocho Rios.
On Thursday, cruise passenger 37-year-old Brantley Black of South Carolina was reportedly caught with ganja and cocaine after attempting to re-board the cruise ship. He taken to the Ocho Rios Police Station where he was charged and taken to jail.
On
BBC News reports that a cruise passenger was jailed for seven years for smuggling 1.5 kilos of cocaine into the United Kingdom.
The UK Border Agency arrested cruise passenger Ben Hartland as he disembarked the Black Watch cruise ship in Southampton last November. He was busted after the custom officers found the drugs in his "rucksack."
BBC News has a less than flattering photo of the
An Israeli business newspaper Globes Online reports on an unusual defense asserted by a Microsoft distributor in litigation pending against it by Microsoft in a business lawsuit pending in Israel.
Microsoft sued one of its distributors, EIM Computerized Technologies Ltd. (EIM), in Tel Aviv after its business relationship with EIM soured. Microsoft claimed that EIM’s refusal to participate in certain unnamed "activities" during
A newspaper in the Cayman Islands is reporting that a 37 year old passenger aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas died during an Atlantis sponsored cruise.
The local newspaper carries the sensational headline: "Body Found On Gay Cruise Ship." The cruise ship had been chartered by Atlantis Events, which organizes parties for the gay community.
Cruise ships are routinely used by both passengers and crew members to smuggle drugs. Two recent newspaper articles from the Royal Gazette in Bermuda point this out.
Today, the newspaper reports that a passenger aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s (NCL) Norwegian Dawn was sentenced to seven years in prison in Bermuda for smuggling 5,048 grams of marijuana, with a street value
