A Boston federal court sentenced the former captain of the ‘Bulldog’, a New Bedford based commercial fishing vessel for interfering with a US Coast Guard inspection of a fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast.
Thomas D. Simpson, 57, of South Portland, Maine, was sentenced to two years of probation, with the first four months to be served in home confinement with electronic monitoring and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine. In August 2018, Simpson pleaded guilty to one count of destruction or...
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