Police in the Bahamas this week arrested two people on sexual assault charges after two American woman on a Carnival cruise said they were drugged and raped while in the Caribbean country.
The report comes on the heels of the United States Department of State issuing a travel advisory for the Bahamas − a popular destinations for cruises as well as for spring-break vacations.
“Quick response,” by officers in Grand Bahama , the northernmost island of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean, resulted in the arrest of a 54-year-old man of Eight Mile Rock and a 40-year-old man of South Bahamia after they allegedly sexually assaulted two women on Sunday, the Royal Bahamas Police Force reported.
According to a preliminary report from the department, the attacks took place shortly after noon on Sunday while two females visited a beach in Central Grand Bahama.
The women, two mothers from Kentucky who identified themselves as Amber Shearer and Dongayla Dobson, told News Nation ‘s Chris Cuomo they were “relaxing on a Grand Bahama beach” when a resort employee allegedly gave them drinks spiked with a cocktail of drugs including benzodiazepines.