Thread: FL-boat found near Fort Myers Beach used for Cuban smuggling

Feds suggest boat found near Fort Myers Beach used for Cuban smuggling
By Rachel Myers • rmyers@news-press.com • August 8, 2008


The brand new 28-foot Seafox was loaded with food, three jugs of water, several cases of soft drinks and more than 460 gallons of fuel.


There was also a satellite telephone and a GPS unit.

Allegedly piloting the vessel was an 18-year-old refugee — homeless, jobless and with no family nearby.

Prosecutors believe he and his passenger may have been starting a 200-mile trek to gather Cuban nationals and bring them to U.S. shores.

Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the driver of that vessel, Yancarlos Riveras-Camallea, 18, led the U.S. Coast Guard on a 26-minute chase 30 miles off the coast of Fort Myers Beach on Wednesday night, ignoring commands to stop until .50-caliber rounds fired at the vessel’s twin engines caused it to sputter, smoke and eventually quit running.

This was after the men on board tried to bribe someone at the Johnson Boat Ramp on Lovers Key with $500 to not report them for suspicious activity, according to ICE agent Donald Zerfoss.

Riveras-Camallea and Luciano Miguel Rios Aranguern were detained, though Aranguern was eventually released without being charged. Riveras-Camallea was arrested for failure to “heave-to,â€

We Americans, are all fools for allowing these idiots to walk all over us like this.

Welfare? an expensive boat?

It’s also not 100 percent clear if Riveras-Camallea is who he says he is, though Gaugush told Frazier he had no reason to doubt; the Cuban gave the same name and date of birth when he entered the U.S. two months ago through Texas from Mexico. He has been receiving welfare, Gaugush said, because he does not have employment.


Yeah, just ask any Cuban they've never had it better.
Show up at the Mexican/American border present your proof of being a Cuban and a few months later a brand new greencard along with directions to the nearest social services office in their area.

They wait a few months more and apply w/ ICE for a permit to go "visit" their family in old Cuba. They take some money arrange for their relatives to get smuggled into Mexico and the Cuban/American mafia there brings them to the Texas border where the cycle begins all over.