{"id":145279,"date":"2026-02-05T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145279\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:11:08","slug":"tourists-arrested-in-miami-on-drug-charges-moments-before-boarding-royal-caribbean-cruise-mdso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145279\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists arrested in Miami on drug charges moments before boarding Royal Caribbean cruise, MDSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five passengers were arrested earlier this week for allegedly trying to board one of the largest cruise ships in the world with drugs in their luggage, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested by MDSO deputies on Sunday after trained security dogs at PortMiami&#8217;s Terminal A flagged their luggage, according to their arrest reports.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers were reportedly trying to board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/royal-caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Royal Caribbean<\/a>&#8216;s Symphony of the Seas for Atlantis Event&#8217;s Symphony 2026, dubbed the &#8220;world&#8217;s biggest gay festival at sea.&#8221; The cruise was set to depart from Miami on Feb. 1 and returns on Feb. 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who were the men and what drugs were found in their luggage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The men were identified as:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Jenkins, 39 from Takoma, WA\u00a0Brad Kloha, 41 from Nashville, TN\u00a0Adam Jones, 49 from Atlanta, GAHoi Le, 51 from San Francisco, CA\u00a0Joshua Eddy from Hollywood, CA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to their arrest reports, the five men had their luggage flagged while Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents did the customary baggage checks.<\/p>\n<p>All of their bags were taken in for further inspection, where they all were found to have several pill bags, which the officers tested afterwards. Those tests came back positive for ecstasy, methamphetamine, and\/or ketamine, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What they are being charged with\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The men were then taken into custody with MDSO with the following charges:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Jenkins\u00a0Possession of controlled substance: MDMA (over 2 grams)\u00a0Brad Kloha\u00a0Trafficking more than 10 grams of ecstasy\/MDMA\u00a0Possession of controlled substance: ketamineAdam Jones\u00a0Trafficking more than 10 grams of ecstasy\/MDMA\u00a0Hoi Le\u00a0Possession of controlled substance: ketamine\u00a0Trafficking more or less 14.9 grams of methamphetamineJoshua EddyTrafficking more than 10 grams of MDMA\u00a0Possession of controlled substance: methPossession of controlled substance: ketamine\u00a0Possesion of controlled substance: GBL<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the five men knew each other, but they and the drugs that were taken from CBP were given to local law enforcement for state\/local prosecution, according to arrest records. The amount of drugs found in their suitcases did not reach the minimum limit for them to be tried on a federal level, according to their arrest affidavits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The official <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisevents.com\/vacation\/symphony-caribbean-cruise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> for the Atlantis Events says that the cruise would make stops in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and St. Maarten.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five passengers were arrested earlier this week for allegedly trying to board one of the largest cruise ships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1539,10261,14183,123,125,124,40968,4102,2975,107,4630],"class_list":{"0":"post-145279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-bahamas","9":"tag-cruise","10":"tag-cruise-ship","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office","15":"tag-puerto-rico","16":"tag-royal-caribbean","17":"tag-travel","18":"tag-u-s-customs-and-border-protection"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}