Kirby Logan Archer

Kirby Logan Archer is an American citizen who was found adrift in circumstances that triggered suspicion.cite news
title=Bullet casings found on boat; 4 crewmembers still missing
date=October 3 2007
author=Rash Madkour
url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-02-missing-boaters_N.htm
publisher=Associated Press
accessdate=2007-10-03] cite news
url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-25-2669337568_x.htm
title=Mystery at sea in missing boater case
publisher=USA Today
author=Curt Anderson
date=September 25 2007
accessdate=2007-10-03]

Found adrift

Archer, 35, and Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, had chartered the "Joe Cool", a 47 foot Miami-based fishing charter. The boat was found adrift, deserted.Archer and Zarabozo were adrift, in the lifeboat, with their luggage -- with no sign of the vessel's crew:Jake Branam; Kelley Branam; Scott Gamble; and Samuel Kairy.

Archer's account said that the vessel was hijacked, and that the hijackers let him and Zarabozo go.

Archer is suspected of chartering the vessel in order to flee an Arkansas arrest warrant, and seek asylum in Cuba.He served in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, and speaks Spanish. Zarabozo is a native of Cuba.

Zarabozo claimed he was never aboard the chartered vessel. He was armed with knives, and blow darts, when the men were rescued.He has been charged with making a false statement.

Arkansas warrant

Archer was the manager of an Arkansas Walmart.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/258533.html
title=Judge prods prosecutors in ghost ship case
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Luisa Yanez
date=October 3 2007
accessessdate=2007-09-29] He stands accused of a theft of $97,000 from the Walmart. He had already fled Arkansas for Florida prior to his arrest warrant being issued.

According to the "Miami Herald": quotation|"Archer, who was also running from sexual-abuse allegations against boys in Arkansas, peeled off $4,000 in cash for the two-hour trip."

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*cite web
url=http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/09/26/kirby.archer.complaint.pdf
title=USA v. Archer
publisher=United States Department of Justice
page=
author=Richard Blais
date=September 26 2007
accessdate=2007-10-03
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/01/national/main3314156.shtml Building a case without bodies]