The man who hammered and stabbed his approach by way of a scalloping boat like a Hollywood slasher film within the excessive seas off of Nantucket, leaving one crew member lifeless, is because of spend almost the subsequent 20 years in jail.
U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs sentenced Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, 31, to 235 months in jail — which is nineteen years and 7 months — at his sentencing listening to Thursday in federal court docket in Boston. Meave Vazquez pleaded responsible on March 9 to 1 rely of homicide within the second diploma, one rely of tried homicide and one rely of assault with a harmful weapon.
The ruling included three years of supervised launch, however Meave Vazquez is a Mexican nationwide within the U.S. illegally and will probably be topic to deportation proceedings when he’s out of jail.
The Coast Guard’s ideas “are with each of the families, nothing can replace their loved ones,” mentioned Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District.
The Virginia-based fishing vessel Captain Billy Haver sailed with a seven-member crew, together with Meave Vazquez, the morning of Sept. 23, 2018. It sailed greater than 50 miles off of the coast of Massachusetts, which is exterior anybody state’s jurisdiction.
By that afternoon, the boat was the scene of a “senseless and horrific” homicide, within the phrases of Joseph Bonavolonta, the particular agent answerable for the FBI’s Boston department.
One crew member lay lifeless on the deck, in accordance with a Coast Guard affidavit, from a number of stab wounds. Two different crew members had been injured by hammer blows.
“This was a horrific act of workplace violence,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins wrote in a press release. “Today’s sentence, although it cannot erase the trauma and pain caused to the families of the murder victim and the survivors of the brutal attack, I hope it brings some accountability.”
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