DEFENCE Force officers detained 46 undocumented Haitian immigrants near Exuma over the weekend.
Acting on information from Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) personnel, Defence Force fast patrol craft P-126 intercepted a sailing sloop in the southern Exuma Cays shortly after 4.30pm on Sunday.
P-126’s boarding team found 38 men and eight women aboard the wooden vessel.
The detainees were taken to Georgetown, Great Exuma, where they are being processed.
P-126 was coxswained by Petty Officer Quentin Burrows
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