Cuban Defectors Detained

Nine Cuban defectors, including four baseball players and a coach, were whisked to a detention center as an agent tried to ensure they would not be sent back to their communist homeland.

Joe Cubas, a Cuban-American baseball agent, arrived in the Bahamas with money, clothes and food for the defectors. He said he planned to talk to Costa Rican officials about obtaining visas for the nine defectors, who were rescued from Bahamian waters Friday by the crew of a fishing boat.

They had been missing since March 10, but Cubas said the defectors told him they hid in Cuba for 10 days, left March 20 and were found after spending less than a day in the open waters.