Police and Immigration officers inspecting the sailboat “Solitude” which was moored at the pier near Walter Plantz Square on October 3, 2019. (File photo)
Solitude
- denied involvement in the human-smuggling operation and had told the police that he had been on a “shopping trip.” He said he had not paid for the trip because he had run several errands on board, such as “to check the fuel and check the food.” However, the prosecutor held him for the captain of the vessel, who had kept in contact with “the big boss in Dominica.”
- had also played a bigger role than he had wanted to admit, the prosecutor said. During his first police interrogation he had said that B. had asked him and M. to help him sail the boat to St. Maarten, which is considered a hub in human-smuggling operations, primarily to the United States.
Lives in danger
Large-scale injunction
https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/prosecution-demands-sentences-of-40-54-months-for-human-smuggling
