Jerome Nibbs v. United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO JEROME NIBBS, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 24-cv-01290 (MAJ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER I. Introduction In the summer of 2022, Plaintiff Jerome Nibbs (“Nibbs”) was apprehended by the United States Coast Guard (“Coast Guard”) on the high seas off the coast of the United States Virgin Islands from a vessel suspected of drug trafficking that was observed jettisoning thirty packages overboard upon the Coast Guard’s approach. Three of these packages were ultimately recovered and found to contain approximately…