Federal agents last week stopped a boat carrying more than a dozen migrants off Miami by shooting the vessel’s twin engines after the operator refused to pull over, according to a criminal complaint.
No one was injured and when U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents boarded the 25-foot center console, they found 15 people on it — from the Bahamas, Haiti, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, the complaint said.
The agents had been tracking the vessel late Wednesday night, when it was about 21 nautical miles east of Miami-Dade County. When the boat reached U.S. waters, about two nautical miles from shore around 11:45 p.m., the agents in their vessel turned on lights and sirens, according to the criminal report…