Matts
Angler
According to Newsday, and with no spot burning:
"The former first mate of North Star, which operated fishing charters out of Captree Boat Basin, admitted in federal court Tuesday to helping to deliberately sink the vessel in off Long Island’s coast in 2018.
The guilty plea of Thomas Jordan, 57, of Brentwood, followed an indictment last year charging him and the vessel’s owner with crimes that included destroying North Star, conspiring to do so and lying to Coast Guard investigators about it.
Jordan and vessel owner Timothy Juettner, 53, allegedly sank the fishing vessel because it needed major repairs Juettner couldn’t afford, sources previously told Newsday.
On Oct. 8, 2018, the vessel went down in the Atlantic Ocean within 12 nautical miles of the coast, according to the 2020 indictment.
The ex-first mate told Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson on Tuesday while pleading guilty to one count of the indictment that he and another defendant worked together to destroy the vessel and he was at the scene when it sank.
The crime also involved using a second vessel as a towing aid, according to Jordan's admissions. He later declined to comment after leaving the Central Islip courtroom."
"The former first mate of North Star, which operated fishing charters out of Captree Boat Basin, admitted in federal court Tuesday to helping to deliberately sink the vessel in off Long Island’s coast in 2018.
The guilty plea of Thomas Jordan, 57, of Brentwood, followed an indictment last year charging him and the vessel’s owner with crimes that included destroying North Star, conspiring to do so and lying to Coast Guard investigators about it.
Jordan and vessel owner Timothy Juettner, 53, allegedly sank the fishing vessel because it needed major repairs Juettner couldn’t afford, sources previously told Newsday.
On Oct. 8, 2018, the vessel went down in the Atlantic Ocean within 12 nautical miles of the coast, according to the 2020 indictment.
The ex-first mate told Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson on Tuesday while pleading guilty to one count of the indictment that he and another defendant worked together to destroy the vessel and he was at the scene when it sank.
The crime also involved using a second vessel as a towing aid, according to Jordan's admissions. He later declined to comment after leaving the Central Islip courtroom."
