A passenger on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship is alleged to have jumped overboard in an attempt to escape paying a $16,000 gambling debt.
Jey Xander Omar Gonzalez-Diaz was arrested on Sunday (September 7) after he jumped from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas when it docked in Puerto Rico.
Authorities say that he’d boarded the ship on August 31 and jumped overboard when it pulled into its final stop in San Juan.
After he jumped into the ocean, he was then reportedly picked up by two people on jet-skis and brought on shore, which was captured on CCTV.
Once on shore, Customs and Border Protection officers found $14,600 in cash on his person, as well as two phones and five IDs.
According to federal prosecutors, Gonzalez-Diaz had…