MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday returned 49 people to Cuba after stopping four vessels off the Florida Keys.
Three of the four boats carrying Cubans were spotted in the span of half an hour on Sunday morning, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
At 10:30 a.m. Sunday, a Coast Guard crew found a “rustic vessel” about 2.5 miles southeast of Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, according to the agency. Just 10 minutes later, a crew detected another boat 23 miles south of Long Key — and 20 minutes after that another crew stopped a boat taking on water 16 miles south off Key West.
