MIAMI — Instead of having fun during the parties that Atlantis Events marketed as the sold-out “world’s biggest gay festival at sea,” several tourists faced charges on Monday afternoon in Miami-Dade County.
On Sunday, at PortMiami’s Terminal A on Dodge Island, trained dogs screened luggage during the boarding of the Symphony of the Seas, a cruise ship with a capacity for over 5,500 passengers, records show.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers determined that the quantity in some cases was too low for Homeland Security Investigations and referred those to Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office deputies instead, records showed.
5 COUNTY CASES
County inmate records showed five defendants were at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday morning near Doral.
In the luggage belonging to Joshua Eddy, 41, of West Hollywood, Calif., CBP officers reported finding “several bags” with pills and a liquid that tested positive for 19.3 grams of MDMA, 3.4 grams of ketamine, 7.55 grams of meth, and 80 grams of GBL.
MDSO deputies with a narcotics squad reported that the arrest of Eddy, who was born in California, occurred at 3 p.m.
Inmate records show Miami-Dade corrections booked Eddy shortly after 10:15 p.m. on Sunday at TGK, records show.
Court records showed Eddy appeared in bond court on Monday, and he faced four charges: Trafficking MDMA and three counts of possession of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $7,000.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Christina Miranda was set to preside over Eddy’s case.
In the luggage belonging to Joshua Jenkins, 39, of Tacoma, Washington, CBP officers reported finding pills that tested positive for 2.11 grams of meth.
Deputies also arrested Jenkins, who was born in Washington, at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Inmate records show corrections booked Jenkins shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday at TGK.
On Monday, Jenkins faced a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Court records show Jenkins appeared in bond court, and a judge released him on his own recognizance.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Tanis Brinkley was set to preside over Jenkins’s case.
In the luggage belonging to Brad Kloha, 41, of Nashville, Tenn., CBP officers reported finding “several bags” with pills that tested positive for 16.3 grams of MDMA and 17.8 grams of ketamine.
Deputies reported the Sunday arrests of Kloha, who was born in Michigan, at 3:30 p.m. Inmate records show corrections booked Kloha shortly after 10:05 p.m. on Sunday at TGK.
Court records show Kloha appeared in bond court on Monday and faced two charges: Trafficking MDMA and possession of a controlled substance.
Kloha’s bond was set at $6,000. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Gonzalez-Marques was set to preside over Kloha’s case.
In the luggage belonging to Adam Jones, 49, of Atlanta, Ga., CBP officers reported finding “a container” with pills that tested positive for 22.8 grams of meth.
Deputies arrested Jones, who was born in Florida, at 4 p.m., on Sunday at the terminal, according to the arrest report.
Inmate records show corrections booked Jones shortly before 10:20 p.m. on Sunday at TGK.
Court records show Jones appeared in bond court on Monday, and he faced a charge of trafficking MDMA.
Jones’s bond was set at $5,000, and Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge David Young was set to preside over his case.
In the luggage belonging to Hoi Le, 51, of San Francisco, Calif., CBP officers reported finding “two clear baggies with suspected narcotics” that tested positive for 14.9 grams of meth and 3.2 grams of ketamine.
Deputies reported arresting Le, who was born in California, at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, according to the arrest report.
Court records show Le appeared in bond court on Monday facing two charges: Trafficking meth and possession of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $5,000, and Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Michelle A. Delancy was set to preside over the case.
INVESTIGATIONS’ DETAILS
The Royal Caribbean ship’s security notified CBP officers about the luggage that trained dogs had flagged, records show.
The CBP searches included pat-downs and narcotics identification systems, records show.
In the county cases, CBP officers reported using the Gemini Test System, which uses infrared light, and the NTK Test Kit U, which uses a color change to identify meth and MDMA, records show.
CBP officers also reported creating records of the county cases in TECS, a federal database known as the Treasury Enforcement Communications System.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo and Digital Journalist Chris Gothner contributed to this report.
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