Yesterday the Bermuda Sun reported on two additional drugs busts involving both cruise passengers and crewmembers.
The Bermuda Sun reports that yet another cruise passenger was arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his cabin. This arrest involved a 48 year old US tourist who was arrested after Customs officers from Bermuda entered his cabin. The cruise passenger
This year we have been reporting on the high number of arrests by the Bermuda customs officials of cruise ship passengers for small amounts of marijuana.
A Pattern of Invading Cruise Cabins and Shaking U.S. Passengers Down for Money
All of the cases fit into a pattern.
After the cruise ship arrives in port, the passenger leave their
The cruise industry is struggling with its own form of "reefer madness" over the last month. Here’s what has been happening in the weird world of cruise ship pot heads, dealers and smugglers.
Bermuda Bust No. 1: Earlier this week, customs agents in Bermuda arrested two Royal Caribbean crewmembers for importing cocaine into the islands on a
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
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
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
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
