{"id":251128,"date":"2026-04-29T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:36:09","slug":"25-detained-after-alleged-smuggling-boat-stopped-off-miami-cbp-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251128\/","title":{"rendered":"25 detained after alleged smuggling boat stopped off Miami, CBP says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than two dozen people were detained after a suspected smuggling boat was found in the ocean off Miami, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-foot vessel had its lights out but was detected by radar about five nautical miles east of Miami at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Interdiction Agents responded and found the boat being operated by a suspected smuggler, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/042926-CBP-smuggling-boat-stopped-Miami.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"More than two dozen people were detained after a suspected smuggling boat was found in the ocean off Miami, authorities said.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Customs and Border ProtectionU.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen people were detained after a suspected smuggling boat was found in the ocean off Miami, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Also on board were 24 other people who were attempting to enter the U.S. illegally, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The people on the boat included Haitian, Romanian, Colombian, Bahamian, Moldovan, and Jamaican citizens.<\/p>\n<p>All 25 of the people were transported to a U.S. Coast Guard cutter for processing and the boat was seized, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two dozen people were detained after a suspected smuggling boat was found in the ocean off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-251128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251128","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=251128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}