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Captain Jerry Boylan was the first to abandon ship on September 2 2019, leaving 33 passengers and one crewmember to die onboard the Conception dive boat (AP)
Jerry Boylan, 70, was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury in November on a single felony count of "misconduct or neglect of a ship officer" under a federal homicide statute dating from ...
Boylan was convicted last year of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer following a 10-day trial in Captain in 2019 scuba boat fire ordered to pay about $32K to families of 3 of 34 ...
The defense had asked the judge to sentence Boylan to a five-year probationary sentence, with three years to be served under house arrest. Boylan’s appeal is ongoing. Hank Garcia, whose son Daniel was among the victims, said he is not a vengeful person but he and other family members don’t want something like this to ever happen again.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.
On November 6, 2023, the captain, Jerry Nehl Boylan, was found guilty of one count of misconduct or neglect of ship officer, colloquially known as "seaman’s manslaughter". Boylan was freed on $75,000 bond before being sentenced on May 2, 2024, to four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his criminal negligence.
Jerry Boylan could have faced up to 10 years in federal prison for his conviction on what is colloquially called seaman's manslaughter. The lighter sentence left many of the victims' family ...
Capt. Jerry Boylan has been charged with 34 counts of manslaughter. Prosecutors say he did not use a roving watch commander while those aboard were sleeping, as required by Coast Guard regulations ...