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27 migrants land ashore in vessel near Boynton Inlet

A boat landed north of the Boynton Beach inlet on Saturday morning with 27 migrants, who were intercepted by police.

A police officer sitting in his patrol car at about 10:40 a.m. overheard a fisherman on a marine radio remark that a vessel had landed on the beach and migrants had run ashore, Boynton Beach police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said.

Officer Darin Hederian found the boat and notified dispatch. Twenty-five migrants from Haiti and two from Ecuador were found hiding in bushes along A1A and taken into custody, authorities said.

They were turned over to the U.