May 4, 2007: Coast Guard reports that a Turks and Caicos police patrol boat was towing the migrants' sailboat to shore when it ran into rough seas and the sailboat capsized.

March 4, 2007: Passengers rushing to the deck of a Haitian sloop probably cause it to capsize, drowning at least 60 migrants when the boat was intercepted by a Turks and Caicos Islands police patrol b

August 16, 2006: An undocumented Haitian woman is found in waters north of Jupiter Inlet and later pronounced dead. She was pushed from a smuggling boat into the water 25 to 50 yards offshore.

July 14, 2001: A Coast Guard cutter spot a suspected smuggling boat traveling between the Dutch side of St. Martin and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.