Man Believed to Be Major Caribbean Drug Dealer Arrested on Cruise Ship

[Jeff Dunsavage]

A man authorities say helped run the largest Caribbean drug ring headed off with his family on a Thanksgiving holiday cruise only to be nabbed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Federal agents were waiting onboard the 3,080-passenger Caribbean Princess for Jorge Luis Figueroa Agosto. He had boarded the weeklong Caribbean cruise in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with his wife, two children and in-laws. The arrest was made without incident before the ship reached its first port of call in St. Thomas, says John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read full story.