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Five stowaways leap into water from ship
Associated Press
Published May 22, 2005
FORT LAUDERDALE - Four men and a 17-year-old boy from Colombia were found Saturday after stowing away on a cargo ship and jumping into the waters off Port Everglades, a federal official said.
The five apparently had hidden in the cargo hold of the Tradepoort and were discovered during a search of containers on the 150-foot ship at the busy Broward County port, said Zachary Mann, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Agents on the ship were alerted to the five stowaways after they ran out of the cargo hold and jumped 15 feet into the water, Mann said.
The five were quickly recovered, and they were being turned over to a ship's representative for their transport back to Colombia, Mann said. The ship came to the United States from Cartagena, Colombia. "They appear just to be stowaways for economic reasons," Mann said.
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