Event Brief
DOJ official warns deadly smuggling route after 42 vanish
By The BriefBrief · Sources (1)
Filed: Sep 18, 2026 at 7:05 AM ET
Summary: The Justice Department says 42 people vanished at sea after a Colombian smuggler guided them onto a boat from San Andrés Island to Nicaragua. Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva warned transnational criminal networks that the DOJ will pursue them, citing a guilty plea by smuggler Luis Enrique Linero Pinto.
WHO: Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva; Luis Enrique Linero Pinto
WHAT: Duva warned about a deadly migrant smuggling route tied to 42 people who disappeared at sea, following Linero Pinto's guilty plea.
WHEN: Oct 21, 2023
WHERE: San Andrés Island, Colombia
WHY: A boat carrying migrants left San Andrés Island for Nicaragua and never arrived, with no one seen or heard from since.
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