Prosecution Proceeds against Indonesia Ship Captain and Crew for Alien Smuggling

During the fourth week of January 1993, indictments were returned against the captain and nine crew members, all Indonesian nationals, of a Honduran-registered breakbulk vessel for conspiracy and aiding and abetting alien smuggling. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California had put before a grand jury proposed indictments against the captain and crew of a ship that allegedly was used to smuggle 180 Chinese refugees in squalid conditions in the ship’s hold into the United States…[more]