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Byline: Erika Pesantes
Sep. 18--BOYNTON BEACH -- The Boynton Beach Police Marine Unit stopped a speeding boat Thursday that is suspected of smuggling migrants, possibly from the Dominican Republic, authorities said.
Officers stopped the boat, which did not have a Florida registration number, around 2:30 p.m. when they saw it speeding in a slow speed zone in the Intracoastal Waterway, Boynton Beach police spokeswoman Stephanie Slater said.
The people on board did not speak English and they told an interpreter assisting police that they were from the Dominican Republic, she said.
Marine officers saw three people aboard, but searched the boat and …