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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia man held on $3 million dollars bail after crashing stolen yacht (yacht was brand new)
A mans joyride in a stolen yacht ended when he crashed into several other docked boats in California, authorities told news outlets.
The 38-year-old San Diego man was arrested and faces charges of grand theft of a boat and possession of a stolen boat Thursday, March 10, after police said he took a 60-foot yacht on a joyride, NBC Los Angeles reported. Police got a call at about 9:20 a.m. , saying a yacht that was being serviced was taken after the person repairing it stepped away, Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriffs Department, told City News Service.
The man was arrested and being held on a $3 million bail, according to NBC Los Angeles.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article259309129.html#storylink=cpy
video of his arrest here https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-man-accused-of-stealing-yacht-crashing-into-others-in-newport-beach-harbor/2845420/
edbermac
(15,919 posts)Old Crank
(3,377 posts)For damaging rich peoples toys. Where almost no bail for killing regular people with your car. Equal justice for all.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)More global warming toys.
SergeStorms
(18,903 posts)to highlight the treatment of Russian oligarchs and the seizure of their yachts. He just couldn't take the injustice any more.
malaise
(267,824 posts)What happens when the left do the same for the pharma oligarchs or the derivatives oligarchsor the slumlords - its a really bad idea when mob rule supersedes rule of law.
Now where did this fool get this idea.
And if its OK for the French anti-Putin right to invade Putins daughters villa, then expect the same from others with a different worldview.
To say I am shocked at what Im reading is an understatement.
obamanut2012
(25,911 posts)"Boats & Hos."
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)People get much less for much more egregious crimes.
malaise
(267,824 posts)so there. It's not like he set up a fake university fake charities, sexually assaulted women, et., etc.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)Did he crash a yacht or commit mass murder?
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)If I were his lawyer, I would recommend pleading guilty to attempting to overthrow the government. That should get bail reduced to a grand or so, and the sentence reduced to time served.
miyazaki
(2,221 posts)doc03
(35,148 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Property damage.