Thread: Cruise ship crew members accused of trying to smuggle drugs into city

Cruise ship crew members accused of trying to smuggle drugs into city

Three Royal Caribbean employees named in criminal complaint




By Yeganeh June Torbati, The Baltimore Sun 11:00 a.m. EST, December 29, 2010


Crew members on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship attempted to smuggle heroin and cocaine into Baltimore from the Dominican Republic, according to criminal complaints filed by U.S. officials on Tuesday.

According to accounts by agents of the Department of Homeland Security filed in federal court, three employees of the cruise line — 35-year-old Gavin Excell and 27-year-olds John Swart Garth and Kishurn Neptune — obtained narcotics in the Dominican Republic during a stop of the Royal Caribbean's "Enchantment of the Seas" trip in mid-December.

When the ship arrived in Baltimore on Dec. 18, the documents state, the three men had planned to sell those drugs at the Port Covington Wal-Mart, near the cruise terminal, to Loxly Johnson and Shenika Nicole Graves, who appear to have driven to Baltimore from Virginia.

They never learn.
And of all people, the crewshould be aware of the stupidity of these kinds of escapades, since you KNOW they must have seen passengers busted for the same thing- probably more than once.

Wonder if they'd done this before and gotton away with it?

I've smelled pot on a few cruises while on our balcony, so drugs gets on, legal or not. (Not sure, is pot legal anywhere yet for medicinal reasons?)

Originally Posted by FinelyCruising

I've smelled pot on a few cruises while on our balcony, so drugs gets on, legal or not. (Not sure, is pot legal anywhere yet for medicinal reasons?)

Yes, in California.