Journalists Arrested on Illegal Migrants’ Boat
<i> Associated Press</i>
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —
Two American journalists were arrested Saturday after being caught in a boat with illegal migrants en route to Puerto Rico, the Dominican navy said.
Edward Barnes, 43, a Time Magazine correspondent from New York, and photographer Michelle Frankfurter, 33, of Washington, face charges because they didn’t go through Dominican immigration to leave the country, navy spokesman Octavio Beges Barjan said.
They will be charged with participating in an illegal voyage, he said. The 109 other passengers also were arrested.
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