Overview
- Federal prosecutors in Puerto Rico charged Jey Xander Omar González‑Díaz after he leapt from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas near Pier 4 on September 7 as the ship returned from a Barbados itinerary.
- Investigators say he failed to report more than $10,000 obtained abroad, a violation triggered when entering the United States with large sums of cash.
- Agents recovered $14,600 in cash, two cellphones and five identification documents, and records later confirmed his identity after he had registered for the cruise as Jeremy Díaz.
- According to the complaint, he told officers he jumped because he did not want to declare the money and feared being charged taxes for carrying the cash.
- CBP and HSI detained him shortly after by the Capitol in San Juan, he was released on bail pending federal proceedings, and court filings list attorney Laura I. Soto Santiago and prosecutor Antonio J. López Rivera on the case.