DR woman says she paid $8K to enter USVI by boat from Tortola
Yesica Perez Pie was arrested on April 4, 2025, when she arrived at CEKA for a flight to Miami, Florida with onward connection to Hartford, Connecticut. At the airport, she was directed to secondary screening to determine her legal status.
Ms Perez Pie reportedly admitted to entering the United States illegally just over two years ago.
She said that she left her home country on April 1, 2023, on a flight to Tortola in the Virgin Islands.
$8000 for illegal crossing
Immediately after arriving in Tortola, she crossed over to St John by boat. The illegal boat crossing cost her $8000, Ms Perez Pie reportedly told CBP officers.
In her passport, agents found a BVI entry stamp dated April 1, 2023.
With no evidence of a US visa, permanent resident status, or prior permission to enter the United States, Ms Perez Pie was arrested and charged with illegal entry. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Alan Teague on Monday, April 7, 2025.
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32 Responses to “DR woman says she paid $8K to enter USVI by boat from Tortola”
Obviously her whole journey was plotted out and coordinated well in advance with local assistance. So what now? Will we look deeper into our homerown human smuggling networks or will we turn a blind eye?
These folks may be illegal immigrants, but it's citizens receiving BIG money who are helping them along the way. Let justice work both ways, not just against the oppressed.
The chances of her being able to pull this off was next to zero. You have to have a green card, valid travel visa, or citizenship to enter the U.S.
These human smugglers who take advantage of these people needs handcuffs on their hands as well. To take 8K from this woman and dump her on St.John to an uncertain future is criminal.
While I do not condone in anyway illegal actions, had she stayed in the USVI it is possible she would not have been detected, but no, the goal was to go to the US and stay in the Virgin Islands. She got away with it for a few years, now the party is over.
We don't know what documents she showed at the airport, but lets assume she had someone else passport/greencard with her picture on it. That fraudulent document would have been discovered. The fact that she was arrested reportedly at the airport says whatever document she had did not pass the smell test.
In this day and age of Trump and ICE, the checking is even more stringent. Long ago, I would say that was possible. Today no.
I once had a police officer who visited my home to see a family member who stole my green card from among personal items. I discovered it a day before my flight from St. Thomas to travel to the US. I was so distressed and started thinking who could have taken it. The only person I could think of was that police officer.
I drove down to the police headquarters in town, called them out, and confronted them because they were the only and last person in my presence at my home how could have done this. I threatened them that if they did not return my green card now, I would report them to the Commissioner of Police and had them arrest, fired, and deported.
I was right. Unfrinkenbelievable. They went back into the station, and came back my green card. Imagine that! A police officer stealing a greencard. I didn't report them after as I was so happy to get it back, but this fool really thought he could have used my green card to travel to the US with my picture on it.
Anyway, anything is possible with desperate people, so one may never know, but again, in todays world, it's next to impossible to travel to the US illegally by plane. Before the plane departs the manifest goes to Washington. If everything does not check out, the plane does not go anywhere until its sorted.
police can't do all the work!
This big business mehson paying 8k to just land tola and end up USA by our infamous go fast boats... pretty sure women in certain offices assisting thugs and drugman them in this as well. dont mind how them pretty and look progessional in office attire..just watch them friend group and social media post night life etc.
the same boats that appear in poker run and no ONE blinks and eye. People younger than 23 with no job owning 1 or Mutiple boats....
our local financial services doing any investigative work or them just there to close them eyes and only target small fries? no wonder uk keep trying to black list us
bvi a joke mehson watch that waiver treaty with USVI get frig
I didn't want to possibly have to stay back and deal with police matters, but he really needed turning in and fired from the force. He was a crook with a badge. Sometimes, I think about what would have happened if he did not admit he stole it and not returned it. I don't know to this day how I would have got to travel to the US back then.
Blame customs
This not stop until BVI man change habits...it is here to stay, so get used to it.
Open up special VISA program. 90 day nookie work permit? Something!
The black viny Doud who call b** is the man say that what he does will sh** island man come here smuggling people to the us for big money, every day the bucket go to the well one day the bottom will drop out
NATURE'S HIDDEN SECRETS / BUT THAT DRUG MO EY WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES / ITS CSLLED YHE SIDE EFFECTS OF THAT BLOOD MONEY / THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE MESSAGE YET / BUT KARMA WILL BRING THEM BACK TO REALITY / SO ALL THOSE WHO HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS -KATMA IS CLOSING IN YOU • WHEN YOU GET A TAP ON YOUR SHOULDER , AND SAY YOUR TIME HAS COME ,SEE IF YOU CAN OUT HIM ●