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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

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

A passenger was arrested after an alleged assault on an elderly man aboard the Norwegian Encore, according to authorities. The incident took place on Saturday, November 22, and the passenger, Phillip Ortiz, 38, was arrested the same day.

Ortiz has been charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older, according to an

A man who allegedly assaulted a teenager onboard the Carnival Mardi Gras on November 22 has been disembarked, according to a tip from a passenger.

Cruise Law News previously reported that the man made a threatening remark before he went to the ship’s teen club and allegedly attacked the teen, who was reportedly “badly injured.”

A passenger aboard the Carnival Mardi Gras contacted Cruise Law News reporting that an adult male passenger assaulted a teenager in the ship’s teen club at around 9:30 pm on November 22.

The tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, is on the same hall as the alleged assailant and saw him before and after the

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York  alleged yesterday that a cruise passenger, identified in court papers as Carlos Batista Jr. of Elmhurst, New York, assaulted his girlfriend and choked her until she passed out during a cruise to the Bahamas.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office published a copy of a

A United States District Court in Mobile, Alabama charged a Carnival cruise passenger with assault pursuant to a federal statute, 28 U.S.C. 113.

Jenetrice Williams of Birmingham, Alabama was taking a cruise on the Carnival Fantasy on August 19, 2018 when she allegedly “pulled a knife during an altercation with her boyfriend, Michael Carter.”

According

Celebrity ConstellationNewspapers in Italy are reporting that the local police in Salerno, Italy arrested a 31 year-old Jamaican, man employed as a cook in the galley of the Celebrity cruise ship, the Constellation, for “attempted murder aggravated by petty reasons.”

The cook, identified only as “OG,” attacked a 38 year-old Indian, head chef, with what

A newspaper in Antiqua reports today about an altercation which allegedly occurred between two cruise passengers & their child and police officers in a souvenir shop in Antigua.

In an article entitled “Cruise Passengers and Police Come to Fisticuffs,” the Antigua Obeserver states that  a souvenir shop in the touristy Heritage Quay section

The popular online community Cruise Critic reports today on a disturbing incident where a 59-year-old passenger attacked another passenger who had a service dog with him aboard Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas on December 20th. 

The article is based primarily on comments by Cruise Critic member "Bloemerl" who posted:

"My heart goes out to our

Yesterday there were multiple news accounts of the sentencing of Carnival cruise passenger, Robert McGill, to life in jail for the brutal murder of his wife aboard the Elation cruise ship.

The crime occurred after McGill reportedly drank a half bottle of Mezcal and seven or eight beers while ashore in Cabo San Lucas.  The Southwest

A post by a cruiser on a CruiseCritic forum yesterday indicates that a cruise passenger visiting Bermuda was assaulted and battered in an attempted robbery last week.

One June 14th, a passenger from the NCL Dawn cruise ship was walking back to the ship around 4:00 p.m. from Snorkel Beach on what is described as a "relatively