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Cruise ship with hundreds of passengers diverts to Bahamas to avoid U.S. arrest warrant over unpaid bills
ktla ^

Posted on 01/23/2022 6:54:27 PM PST by BenLurkin

The ship was scheduled to arrive in Miami on Saturday. But a federal judge in Miami issued an arrest warrant for the ship Thursday, a maritime practice where a U.S. Marshal goes aboard a vessel and takes charge of it once it enters U.S. waters.

The lawsuit was filed in a Miami federal court by Peninsula Petroleum Far East against the ship under a maritime procedure that allows actions against vessels for unpaid debts. The complaint says Crystal Symphony was chartered or managed by Crystal Cruises and Star Cruises, which are both sued for breach of contract for allegedly owing $4.6 million in fuel.

Crystal Cruises announced earlier this week that it was suspending operations through late April. Besides Crystal Symphony, it has two other ships currently cruising, which end their voyages on Jan. 30 in Aruba and on Feb. 4 in Argentina.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; 98to0; bahamas; cruiseship; crystalcruises; crystalserenity; crystalsymphony; darringayles; darrinpgayles; gayjudge; miamidutystation; obamajudge; peninsulapetroleum; sdflorida; starcruises; youwasawhoopsie

1 posted on 01/23/2022 6:54:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Now they are pirates


2 posted on 01/23/2022 7:00:38 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: BenLurkin

How do you arrest a cruise ship, and how does a cruise ship change course?


3 posted on 01/23/2022 7:06:13 PM PST by Ingtar
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To: BenLurkin

Is our very own Entrails on the ship??


4 posted on 01/23/2022 7:07:07 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

entrails?


5 posted on 01/23/2022 7:09:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Ingtar

I have a friend who’s a maritime lawyer. “Arresting a ship” is a real thing. U.S. marshals (or analogous law enforcement personnel in other countries) seize control of the ship and prevent it from leaving port until the dispute is settled.


6 posted on 01/23/2022 7:10:36 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: BenLurkin
This might take awhile...


7 posted on 01/23/2022 7:17:44 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: irishjuggler

Isn’t that what happened to the cargo ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal?


8 posted on 01/23/2022 7:25:18 PM PST by captain_dave
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To: BenLurkin

The lockdown economic disaster was not cause by the Fauci/China biological warfare virus, it was caused by bureaucratic psychopaths drunk with power.


9 posted on 01/23/2022 7:27:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Magnum44
In a sane world this would have been Barry Soetero's career path. It really is all that he is qualified to do.


10 posted on 01/23/2022 7:27:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I must have listened to this a thousand times

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-EXNounv-U


11 posted on 01/23/2022 7:29:35 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

Watched that show when it was on TV.


12 posted on 01/23/2022 7:32:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: algore

Hmmmm....must have been re-runs.


13 posted on 01/23/2022 7:34:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Only the beginning.


14 posted on 01/23/2022 7:50:08 PM PST by George from New England
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To: irishjuggler

“... a maritime practice where a U.S. Marshal goes aboard a vessel and takes charge once it enters U.S waters.”

Captain to Marshal: “ok, you have command.”, (”everyone else stand down”)


15 posted on 01/23/2022 9:16:46 PM PST by A strike (Public Health 21st century murder by government. DoktorFauxiMengeleGates to a TerreHaute gurney now)
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To: BenLurkin

How does this judge have that power?


16 posted on 01/23/2022 9:30:43 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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