MIAMI — An Arkansas man who claimed Cuban pirates hijacked and killed the crew of a boat he chartered last month was indicted on four counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping in Miami federal court Thursday.
The grand jury indictment comes a month after U.S. Coast Guard officials found Kirby Archer, 36, of Strawberry on a life raft near Cuba. With him was 19-year-old Guillermo Zarabozo, a former security guard from Hialeah, Fla., and a bag of $100 bills, blowgun darts and knives.
Federal prosecutors filed criminal complaints Oct. 10 accusing Archer and Zarabozo of murdering the crew, but the grand jury indictment Thursday outlined the nine counts against them, which included one count of robbery. The bodies of the boat's crew and the captain's wife have not been found.
For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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