The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a cruise ship crew member, identified as Akshay Somaroo, for possession and importation of child pornography near Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, Canada according to Nunatsiaq News. At the time of his arrest, Somaroo was working on the World Explorer, a relatively small expedition cruise ship

A Royal Caribbean stateroom attendant on the Symphony of the Seas was sentenced by a federal court judge to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography.

Arvin Joseph Mirasol, age 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was sentenced in Miami federal court yesterday.

During a cruise from Fort Lauderdale in late February, an adult

U.S. Homeland Security arrested two crew members on cruise ships operated by Carnival Cruise Line when they were in New Orleans two weeks ago. According to a newspaper in News Orleans, Homeland Security arrested Abdhul Rouvoof Shaik of India and Reza Heta Pratama of Indonesia for possession and transportation of child pornography after they disembarked

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Local10 News in Miami reports that a 35-year-old crew member appeared in federal court yesterday after federal agents found child sexual abuse material and bestiality videos on his phone after he disembarked at PortMiami on Sunday.

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Two crew members, employed by unidentified cruise lines, are the latest cruise ship employees arrested for possession of child sexual abuse materials after they were apprehended yesterday at PortMiami with child pornography on their phones, according to local Miami NBC News Station 6.

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Two additional crew members on cruise ships were arrested in South Florida in the last week on charges of child pornography, bringing the total of cruise ship employees apprehended for possessing child abuse materials to a total of at least eight in a period of a little over three months.

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Local NBC-6 station reports that a 33-year-old crew member was arrested at PortMiami this past weekend on charges of possessing child pornography.

NBC-6 reports today that Komang Parianta was taken into custody after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted a search of his cabin, where two videos of child sexual abuse material were discovered.

A Celebrity Cruises crew member was arrested in Fort Lauderdale by federal agents who found child sexual abuse material on his phone when he disembarked in Port Everglades.

According to Local 10 News (WPLG), who reviewed criminal federal court documents (which you can review here), Celebrity crew member Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age