Jacksonville company’s cargo barge boarded by ‘looters’ off coast of the Bahamas

Pirates in the Caribbean, or at least an apparent act of piracy that stretched on for two days, seems to have been resolved.

New photos obtained by Action News Jax show Bahamian police aboard a cargo barge that was taken over by roughly 50 people off the coast of the Bahamas on its way from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, according to the vessel’s owner.

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Action News Jax obtained video showing several small vessels alongside the Brooklyn Bridge cargo barge about three miles off the coast of the Bahamas.

The video, Action News Jax is told, was shot by the suspected robbers and looters and sent to the vessel’s owner, Trailer Bridge, as proof of the ongoing incident…

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