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 passenger aboard Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas was arrested on voyeurism charges after detectives said he tried to photograph under a 13-year-old girl’s dress in a shipboard gift shop.
Mahahual has become a test case in Mexico’s cruise economy, with residents and researchers arguing that the town bears the environmental and infrastructure costs of cruise tourism while seeing little of the financial benefit.
Five American tourists are in custody after a confrontation linked to Nassau Cruise Port escalated at a police station and left four officers injured, Bahamian police said.
Seatrade Cruise News reports that Frank Del Rio, former president and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), is suing NCLH and four past directors. The lawsuit, filed in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit for Miami-Dade County, alleges that to cut executive compensation expenses, NCLH directors pressured Del Rio to retire early. Del Rio negotiated an early
Hackers breached Carnival Corporation’s systems in April and exposed personal data tied to nearly 6 million people, including passport and driver’s license information in some cases.
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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 gastrointestinal illness outbreak sickened 12 people aboard the National Geographic Sea Bird during a late-May Alaska voyage, the CDC said.
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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
A Carnival passenger who was celebrating her college graduation has sued over a Bahamas excursion accident that left her with catastrophic injuries, including the loss of both legs.
A Tennessee man was finally arrested after he assaulted a teenager on the Carnival Mardi Gras on November 22, 2025. The man, Orlando R. Hughes, 43, was first arrested in Tennessee by Mt. Juliet Police on May 14, 2026 as “a fugitive from justice,” and then booked in Brevard County, Florida on May 24, a
A man died after going overboard from the Carnival Liberty while the ship was sailing from Celebration Key to Nassau, as reported first by WDSU.
A Carnival spokesperson said that the man climbed over his stateroom balcony and jumped overboard into the water. This is an unusually direct statement from Carnival, which typically uses more
Agents from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stormed the Disney Magic after it docked in San Diego late last month, detaining 10 crew members, most of whom were led from the Disney cruise ship with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.
Images of Disney crew members being led into unmarked CBP vans have been widely
A cruise ship failed a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) health inspection for the first time in 2026. The CDC gave the Norwegian Dawn an unsatisfactory score of 84 on March 29, 2026, documenting extensive health violations on the ship.
The violations include flies in buffet areas, mold in ice machines, refrigeration failures
An 83-year-old passenger aboard the Norwegian Getaway died while snorkeling during the ship’s Bahamas stop on May 3 after being found unresponsive in the water at Great Stirrup Cay.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Caribbean Princess has a norovirus outbreak on its current 13-day Caribbean voyage originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The CDC states that 145 passengers and 15 crew members are sick with the virus.
The total number of sick passengers and crew members may increase as
An Iowa woman accused of assaulting a teenager surrendered to local authorities in Miami on May 4, a month and a half after the alleged crime. The woman, Jennifer Frost, 44, reportedly punched and broke a teenager’s nose on March 19 while on the Carnival Sunshine.
According to the arrest report, Frost approached the
