Cuban human smugglers await sentencing after caught in boat with 18 Ecuadorians, feds say

MIAMI – After a U.S. Coast Guard crew reported a suspicious go-fast boat in the Bahamas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers joined a pursuit.

Yordany Capote-Leon and Yuniel Cabrera departed in the boat from the U.S. before the USCG Coast saw them picking up a group of migrants, according to prosecutors.

Border Protection officers reported firing “warning shots” at the cuddy-cabin-style boat after Capote-Leon, 31, and Cabrera, 44, ignored their orders to stop off Key Largo…

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