Somali pirates scored a haul of booty yesterday when they were paid a $3 million ransom to release a Saudi supertanker they hijacked last year. The quarreling pirates’ plan sank, however, after their small getaway boats capsized in a vicious storm as they were trying to return to shore. ”Five of the first eight pirates who took [...]

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The contestants for Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack are set to be young scientists, athletes, acrobats and Mensa members.

Guess where this room leads too 
 
The celebs, including Little Britain star Matt Lucas and ex-footballer Ian Wright, will be setting tasks, handing out punishments, like removing food, and listening to the housemates in the Diary Room.

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MIAMI (CBS4)  A federal judge in Miami is expected to set a trial date on Wednesday for two men charged in a boating murder mystery.
Kirby Logan Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo are facing first-degree murder charges. They are also charged with robbery for the alleged [...]

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MIAMI (AP) — Investigators found bullet casings on a charter boat whose four crew members are missing and one of the two men held in the possible quadruple slaying had blow gun darts and knives when found at sea, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The new details came as a judge ordered the two men held without [...]

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 I don’t even want to think of these two pricks getting away with murder so lets hope there is evidence.
A Miami federal judge on Tuesday pressed prosecutors to produce more evidence against two men suspected in the disappearance of a charter boat crew to justify holding them while prosecutors build their case.
U.S. Magistrate William Turnoff [...]

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Word is these losers are blaming 3 Cubans for the murder of the crew.
MIAMI - Federal prosecutors for the first time said Tuesday that two survivors found near an abandoned Miami Beach fishing boat are suspects in the deaths of the vessel’s captain and three-member crew.

“They are presently under investigation for murder,” Assistant U.S. [...]

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Federal prosecutors, building a homicide case against the two men, hope for confessions, too. Without one, without the victims’ bodies and without compelling physical evidence, authorities face major challenges in bringing possible murder charges against Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo, who paid $4,000 cash to charter the boat on Sept. 22 for an ill-fated one-way [...]

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Family Members Of Crew Member Wants Custody Of Children
MIAMI — A bail hearing was delayed until next week for two men jailed in connection with the mysterious disappearance of four crew members from a fishing boat that the men hired for what was supposedly a pleasure trip to the Bahamas. Defense attorneys and prosecutors [...]

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Two survivors who say boat was hijacked await legal fate, bail hearing Unraveling what happened aboard the sport fishing boat Joe Cool on Saturday night as it veered off course in the Florida Straits could prove challenging for investigators.
Four people are missing and their bodies may never be found. One of the surviving witnesses is [...]

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The ex-wife of an Arkansas man in federal custody following the disappearance of four fishing boat crew members issued a statement Thursday saying she didn’t know if her former husband was capable of murder.The statement from Michelle Rowe marked her most extensive comments since her ex-husband, Kirby Logan Archer, was arrested after his rescue at [...]

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The story of the missing crew members aboard an abandoned Miami Beach charter boat took a strange turn on Wednesday with talk of mysterious hijackers and deadly shootings on the high seas.
One of the two men who hired the four-member crew to take them to Bimini told U.S. Coast Guard officials that all four were [...]

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