A grand jury just lately indicted a 27 year-old resident of Pennsylvania for strangling and beating a girl, who seems to be his girlfriend, throughout a cruise aboard a cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) to the Caribbean a 12 months and a half in the past. The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) charged Quintin Owens with three felonies earlier this week: (1) “assault of an intimate or courting accomplice by strangling,” (2) assault by putting, beating, or wounding,” and (3) interstate home violence. The fees have been filed in Federal Courtroom for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Could 21, 2024. The primary two felony crimes are laid out in 18 United States Code (U.S.C.) 113 (a) and the home violence cost is predicated on the alleged violation of 18 U.S.C. 2261 (a). The DOJ issued a press release summarizing the allegations.
The violent assault and battery is alleged to have occurred on the Norwegian Getaway which sailed from Port Canaveral on October 8, 2022 on a one week cruise to america Virgin Islands (USVI), Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The indictment alleges that on October 11, 2022, Owens allegedly assaulted and battered his “intimate and courting accomplice” by “strangling her in a choke maintain” on the excessive seas close to St. Thomas, USVI. Owens pled not responsible to the fees and posted a $20,000 bond.
Owens and the sufferer each reside within the Western District of Pennsylvania in a city north of Pittsburg.
Owens faces a most sentence of 10 years in jail, a advantageous of $250,000 or each.
There isn’t a data disclosed relating to the precise circumstances surrounding the violent assault which is alleged to have occured on the NCL cruise ship or whether or not the sufferer obtained medical remedy on the ship. It is usually not clear why it took over 17 months for the indictment.
There have been plenty of “home disturbances” throughout cruises over time. In October 2018, a cruise passenger assaulted his girlfriend on an unidentified cruise ship. He choked her until she passed out during a cruise to the Bahamas. He was indicted underneath the identical federal legal statute concerned on this case, 18 U.S.C. 113 (a).
A cruise passenger on the Carnival Fantasy was indicted earlier in 2018 after she reportedly pulled a steak knife and cut her boyfriend throughout an altercation.
In August 2018, a 53 year-old man was arrested for murdering his girlfriend on the Carnival Elation.
A few months in the past, a Carnival passenger was viciously crushed and reduce within the face with a bar glass and required nineteen stiches. The crime came about on the Carnival Magic the place a cruise visitor, who turned irate when requested to be stop in a theater on the ship, “smashed his cocktail glass into a person’s face and beat him throughout a theater present.”
Picture credit score: Norwegian Getaway – kees torn – CC BY-SA 2.0 commons / wikimedia.
