US Military Seizes Another Tanker in Caribbean Sea ‘Without Incident’

The tanker, Olina, was suspected of being part of a ‘ghost fleet’ meant to evade U.S. sanctions.

A still from video released by the U.S. military showing its members boarding a tanker, the Olina, on Jan. 8, 2026. US Southern Command via The Epoch Times

U.S. military forces boarded an oil tanker in an early morning operation in the Caribbean Sea on Jan. 8, the third such action this week, the U.S. Southern Command announced in a statement.

In the action, Marines and Navy sailors apprehended the Motor/Tanker Olina vessel at sea “without incident,” Southern Command said in a Jan. 9 post on X. The post also included a video of a helicopter flying above the tanker as military personnel boarded the ship with guns drawn.