Cruise passengers smuggled 5 kg of cocaine into Miami, authorities say

Two sisters allegedly smuggled close to 5 kilograms of cocaine in their luggage last month while taking a week-long cruise from Miami through Mexico and the Caribbean, a report from a federal investigator says.

According to a criminal complaint filed by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security special agent, the sisters had arrived in the Port of Miami on July 23 after traveling on an MSC Seascape cruise that began a week earlier.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers boarded the MSC cruise to conduct an “enforcement operation” after the ship arrived from Cozumel, Mexico, with stops in Grand Cayman, Jamaica and the Bahamas. After finding the two sisters in their shared cabin, CBP officers asked the women to bring their belongings to a “secondary inspection.” The complaint does not specify the reason for that inspection.

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