2 Cubans Face Charges in Fatal Smuggling
Two Cuban nationals were charged with trying to smuggle 26 illegal immigrants into the United States in a speedboat that capsized, killing six.
Osvaldo Fernandez Marrero and Roberto Montero Dominguez, both of Miami-Dade County, were charged after investigators interviewed them and 20 survivors pulled from rough seas early Wednesday south of Key West.
Three adults and three children died, but only one body was found.
Fernandez and Montero charged the immigrants as much as $8,000 each for the trip to Florida, the Border Patrol said in an affidavit. They were being held at the federal detention center in Miami pending arraignment Monday.
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