Group of migrants came ashore on Sunny Isles Beach
MIAMI - A group of migrants came ashore early Tuesday morning on Sunny Isles Beach.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said around 2 a.m. they got a call about a capsized vessel offshore near 163rd Street. When they arrived, they treated three people who stayed near the boat which had beached on the shore. One of those people was taken to the hospital.
The Homeland Security Task Force 15 migrants were on the boat. The other 12 were taken into custody by US Customs and Border Protection agents.
Marcelo Tuoni said he was walking on the beach when he saw a police car stuck in the sand.
"We were walking and we saw the flashing lights. There were other cop cars with turned off lights. So we asked some people what was going on and they said 'I don't know, I don't know, there's a bunch of cops'. So we started walking that way and eventually, we found a stuck police car and were just trying to help them. So we saw the boat, and DHS and HSI were all over and they didn't want to tell us what was going on but it was kind of obvious," said Tuoni.
Federal authorities did not where the migrants were from.
