Two CBP agents boarded the vessel to provide aid to the captain and co-captain, however they were unresponsive. CBP agents positioned the CBP vessel alongside the suspect vessel and boarded at approximately 12:22 a.m., taking the occupants into custody. Another CBP agent fired his rifle simultaneously at the port side engine which stopped the suspect vessels forward movement. The task force officer discharged his rifle striking the captain of the suspect vessel in the torso. The captain of the suspect vessel then moved to pick up the co-captain’s rifle. A CBP agent fired his CBP rifle, striking the co-captain in the torso. The CBP agents told the co-captain to drop the rifle, but the co-captain raised the rifle. While the CBP vessel repositioned and prepared to shoot and disable the port side engine, the CBP agents saw the co-captain of the suspect vessel with a rifle. The CBP vessel followed the suspect vessel with emergency equipment activated and issued repeated commands to stop as CBP agents observed individuals throwing packages of suspected narcotics overboard while the vessel distanced itself from the CBP vessel.ĬBP agents initiated the small boat interdiction program protocols and, after two visual warning flares, disabled the starboard engine of the vessel using a shotgun at approximately 12:20 a.m.
The captain and co-captain ignored the commands and fled in the vessel to avoid apprehension. The CBP agents gave commands using the vessel’s loudspeaker in English and Spanish for the vessel to stop and the occupants to show their hands. The CBP vessel approached the suspect vessel from the stern position with the CBP vessel’s lights and sirens activated at approximately 12:19 a.m.
Three CBP Marine Interdiction Agents and a Puerto Rico Police Department task force officer on board the CBP vessel departed the docks in Ceiba at approximately 11:30 p.m. On January 14, 2023, the Caribbean Air and Marine Operations Center detected a suspected target of interest north of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and continued to monitor the suspect vessel as a CBP vessel from the CBP marine docks in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, was dispatched to intercept it.
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