A 26-year-old Indian national was arrested and charged with two counts of abusive sexual contact aboard a cruise ship, according to a press release by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington.
The man, Pranit Narayan Pawar, worked as a hairstylist aboard Virgin Voyages’ Brilliant Lady. Pawar began offering massages
A Honduran man, previously employed by Royal Caribbean Cruises on the Rhapsody of the Seas, pled guilty last week to sexually assaulting a 15 year-old girl who was sailing as a passenger on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship in the summer of 2003.
Elias Luis Herrera, 47, entered his plea on June 22 in
Federal agents arrested Joseph Samuel Doria, age 28, on felony charges related to the possession and transportation of child sexual abuse material (“CSAM”) as he disembarked from the Regal Princess cruise ship in Port Everglades over this past weekend.
The arrest took place at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint at Port Everglades
Federal grand juries have indicted Christopher Michael Lawhon, 36, and Tajareia Lawon Aikee Blackwell, 25, on separate child sexual exploitation charges after federal agents discovered child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on their cell phones.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced the separate indictments after both men returned from cruises that
A Virgin Voyages crew member was repatriated to Peru after a fellow crew member accused him of sexual assault aboard the Valiant Lady while the ship was in drydock in Palermo, Italy.
A Carnival cruise passenger from New Orleans pleaded guilty to committing sexual abuse against a 15-year-old on a Carnival cruise ship which occurred nearly two and a half years ago.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Kendrick White Sr., age 43, and three of his relatives, two of whom
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Port Everglades deported four cruise ship crew members, according to Crew Center. Following what the CBP claims was “routine screening,” the cell phones of four crew members allegedly contained child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) which the crew members admitted possessing.
CBP officials released the photo above
A Celebrity Beyond passenger was charged with video voyeurism after crew members found a hidden camera in a public ship bathroom during a Caribbean voyage that stopped in St. Thomas on April 1.
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Former massage therapist Javarous McNealy was jailed on federal charges after agents found child sexual abuse videos on his phone when he disembarked the Carnival Conquest at PortMiami.
An Ohio man was arrested at Port Everglades after Broward deputies accused him of secretly recording a 15-year-old boy in a cruise ship bathroom, the latest in a series of hidden-camera cases tied to the cruise industry.
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A crew member aboard the Celebrity Xcel was arrested after Broward investigators accused him of sexually assaulting a fellow employee at sea, reviving concerns about how vulnerable cruise workers remain when serious crimes occur offshore.
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It happened again. For the third time in the last two years, an adult passenger exposed himself to teenagers in the ship sauna on a Royal Caribbean-owned cruise ship.
Last Saturday’s Crime
The most recent incident involves a passenger described as a “Florida man” who was arrested last Saturday following an eight-day cruise for “touching
A passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas was arrested on Tuesday at PortMiami for possession of cell phone video of a man raping a child, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (MDSO). Local 10 News reported that federal agents received a “suspicious activity report“ about cruise passenger Basilios Grayeb, 29, of Haifa, Israel
A twenty-two year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested for possession and transportation of child pornography at Port Everglades on Saturday, after he got off the Majestic Princess, according to Local 10 News.
Federal customs officers conducted a search of Samuel Wolfe Peterson’s cellphone and laptop found about 20 videos of victims as
A sixteen-year-old girl aboard a Carnival cruise ship was allegedly sexually assaulted by another teenager who was arrested by the Royal Bahamian Police in Nassau, Bahamas, according to a Bahamian newspaper. The incident occurred on the Carnival Sunrise on December 29, 2025.
On January 2, 2026, a Bahamian judge granted the assailant an emergency
Two American cruise passengers have been charged with rape after allegedly swapping places to deceive a woman into having sex with them. The incident occured on the Carnival Sunrise on December 15, 2025.
The 25-year-old victim told police in the Bahamas that she met Sayjuan Readous, 26, during the cruise and had a drink with him
The Florida Director of Field Operations (DFO Florida) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Port Canaveral has continued a series of deportations involving cruise ship crew members, this time following a targeted Child Sexually Exploitative Material (CSEM) “enforcement operation.” CSEM is typically called Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”). DFO Florida recently announced that an
A federal jury found Malaysian national, Lay Ong, 67, guilty for sexually abusing a minor during a Royal Caribbean cruise. The incident took place earlier this year on the Icon of the Seas during the ship’s March 29 through April 5 voyage from Miami.
Ong was convicted on October 23 and the press release of
