Outsiders are strictly forbidden from going to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

An American tourist is making headlines for secretly entering a remote island ... Andaman Sentinel visit arrest: Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov held, but do you know of the woman who made friendly ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island — part of India’s Andaman and ...