{"id":33434,"date":"2013-03-25T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:40:27","slug":"human-smugglers-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/human-smugglers-jailed","title":{"rendered":"Human Smugglers Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33435\" title=\"homeland-security\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/homeland-security.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/homeland-security.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/homeland-security-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Two Brazilians &#8211; Juliana Rose Tome-Froes and her husband, Fabio Rodrigues Froes &#8211; have been jailed for smuggling illegal migrants to the United States through an elaborate network running through Nassau and Freeport.<\/p>\n<p>They received sentences of 60 months and 46 months respectively, for smuggling undocumented migrants to the US for profit.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison sentences, Judge Moreno ordered each defendant to forfeit $150,000 in illegal proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>An article in The Tribune reported that according to court documents, from at least October 2008 until approximately September 2010, the defendants organised, operated and managed a human smuggling network that spanned from Brazil to France, England, The Bahamas and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The undocumented migrants were instructed them to act like tourists, and the itinerary through Europe was to help support a tourist cover story.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants were charged about $16,000 to have air transportation from Brazil to Paris, then London and Nassau arranged.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Brazilians have been jailed in Miami for smuggling illegal migrants to the United States through a network running through Nassau and Freeport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,206,1383],"class_list":["post-33434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-human-smuggling","tag-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}