Gary Lee Hall
Cruise Ship Sex Offenders
Cruise Ship Passenger Sex Offenders
Cruise Ship Crewmember Sex Offenders
February 19, 2008
Gary Lee Hall, 67, boarded a Millennium cruise ship in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a trip to the Caribbean. He was subsequently arrested at the Pan American dock in San Juan, Puerto Rico after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspectors alerted ICE that Hall was wanted by the state of Florida since February 7, 2008, for possession of child pornography.
"The arrest of this man shows ICE's commitment and that of our partners in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to identify, arrest, and prosecute those who hurt our children no matter where the felony was committed - in the mainland, U.S. territories or abroad," said Roberto Escobar Vargas, acting special agent-in-charge of ICE's Office of Investigations in San Juan. "ICE and our DHS partners are very vigilant in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and will simply not allow criminals to pass through our ports of entry undetected."
This arrest was part of Operation Predator, a comprehensive ICE initiative aimed at those who prey on children, including human traffickers, international sex tourists, Internet pornographers, and foreign national predators whose crimes make them deportable. Since the initiative was launched in July of 2003, there have been nearly 11,000 predators arrested nationwide including 608 in Florida and 38 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Hall was sentenced on the charge of ABUSE OF CHILD, PHOTO SEX CONDT on January 8, 2009 to 5 years of Community Supervision.
