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Arrest made in 2022 migrant smuggling boat capsizing that killed 39 people

Agents say Earl Knowles linked the Montoya siblings to smugglers who moved 40 migrants on the boat before it capsized and killed 39 people.

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On Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet.

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Arrest made in 2022 migrant smuggling boat capsizing that killed 39 people

On Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet.

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Earl Knowles Arrested in 2022 Florida Migrant Boat Deaths

Federal agents arrested Earl Knowles, linking him to a 2022 capsizing off Fort Pierce that killed 39 migrants traveling from Bimini.

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The spokesman-Review broke the news in Spokane, United States on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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