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Stonington Man Pleads Guilty to Arson of Lobster Boat

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine

Contact: James M. Moore
Assistant United States Attorney
Tel: (207) 945-0373

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeremy Eaton, 39, of Stonington, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to setting fire to a lobster boat. 

Court records reveal that on the evening of April 16, 2014, Eaton walked to Stonington Harbor, removed gasoline cans from a skiff docked in the harbor and then used a small boat to transport himself and the gas cans to a fiberglass lobster boat which was moored in the harbor.  Eaton then emptied the cans of gasoline into the lobster boat and started a fire which destroyed the boat.  Eaton later admitted that he had burned the boat. 

Eaton faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.  He will be sentenced after the completion of a presentence investigation report by the U.S. Probation Office.

The investigation was conducted by the Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Updated March 14, 2016
Topic
Violent Crime
Component
USAO - Maine

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