{"id":35708,"date":"2013-05-17T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35708"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:11:15","slug":"10-illegal-brazilian-immigants-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/10-illegal-brazilian-immigants-discovered","title":{"rendered":"10 Illegal Brazilian Immigants Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Grand Bahama arrested 12 people, including 10 Brazilian nationals, on Monday and are working with Immigration officials to determine how the illegal immigrants came to be here.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Marine Division on sea patrol in the Bell Channel area around 6:10 p.m. reportedly observed a yellow 20-foot Cobira vessel with two 200 horse power Yamaha outboard engines and two males on boar.<\/p>\n<p>The males, a Bahamian and American, were reportedly acting suspiciously and the officers stopped the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the vessel was not cleared by Customs or Immigration, police say.<\/p>\n<p>A further check of a second vessel, which took police to a hotel in the Victoria Avenue and Midshipman Road area, led to the discovery of the 10 Brazilian nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested every one and handed the Brazilians over to Bahamas Immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The matter is said to be under active investigation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Source: The Freeport News<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Grand Bahama arrested 12 illegal immigrants, including 10 Brazilian nationals, on Monday but failed to arrest the Bahamian boat captain who was transporting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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":[93,81,41,38],"class_list":["post-35708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-grand-bahama","tag-immigration","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}