TEQUESTA, Fla. — Six migrants — four Haitians and two from the Dominican Republic — were apprehended after a boat landed Saturday night on the beach in Coral Cove Park area in Tequesta, the U.S. Border Patrol said Sunday.
Eight people were aboard the small boat, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.
Border Patrol agents, along with federal, state and local law enforcement partners, responded to the landing, Border Patrol regional Chief Samuel Briggs II posted on X, along with an image of the small boat.
Jupiter, FL: On Saturday evening, U.S. Border Patrol agents along with federal, state, & local law enforcement partners responded to a migrant landing & encountered 6 migrants (4-Haiti, 2-Dom. Republic). Investigation remains ongoing. #jupiter #florida #borderpatrol pic.twitter.com/0tTy7tTVFI
— Samuel Briggs II (@USBPChiefMIP) March 3, 2024
He posted that the "investigation remains ongoing."
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Sheriff's spokeswoman Teri Barbera told WPTV that "numerous subjects" fled the scene.
Two of the migrants were children and, after an intense search, six of the eight were located uninjured, she said.
WPTV reporter Victor Jorges was at the scene of the boat landing Sunday morning and saw one Border Patrol officer nearby.
A woman from one of the waterfront properties by the park told Jorges she was having dinner with her granddaughter, who was visiting from college, when they noticed the boat on the shore.
Then they saw a man in a red life jacket running toward the buildings and hiding by the bushes.
They heard helicopters overhead Saturday night.
Graham Kastendike photographed a man in handcuffs near where the boat landed.
