A crew member employed on the Carnival Valor pleaded guilty to possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”) in a federal district court last week. Reza Heta Pratama, a citizen of Indonesia, was arrested in July of last year when the Carnival Valor docked in New Orleans following a cruise to Mexico. Carnival instructed Pratama
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued a press release described as a “cruise ship crack down” involving “child exploitation offenders during joint operation.”
The press release stated that the CBP’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport human trafficking unit collaborated with the Port of Galveston in Texas and Port Canaveral in Florida in an operation that
A cruise passenger who was installed a secret WIFI camera on a cruise ship sailing from Miami to the Caribbean and recorded more than 150 individuals, including many children, was released from prison last month after serving less than one year in a low security institution in Florida and paying only a $25 fine.
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) went to social media last Friday to make a point with a former crew member.
It announced that a cruise ship employee from northern Florida, Theodore “Banks” Pappas, Jr., previously employed by Norwegian Cruise Line on the Norwegian Bliss as the “Head of Broadcast” (broadcast technician)
On April 8, 2025, we reported on the arrest of a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) crew member on the Norwegian Bliss who was apprehended at the port of Los Angeles at 8:30 a.m. on April 4th for possession and transmission of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) stated
A Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) ship employee has been arrested at the port of Los Angeles, California and charges with 13 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to a release from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).
Theodore Burbank Pappas, Jr., age 47, was arrested by the Los Angeles Port Police
A resident of Polk City, Florida was arrested at the Port of Tampa on charges of possessing and transporting child pornography on the Margaritaville at Sea’s Islander, according to a local news station in Tampa.
James Oxley, age 52, boarded the Islander cruise ship, operated by Margaritaville at Sea, on December 17, 2025 for
The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami last weekend on charges of “purchasing child sexual abuse material online.”
Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $50,000 bond for five felony
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