Dundalk man gets 18 months for abandoning boat
A Dundalk man was sentenced to 18 months in jail after he failed to remove his derelict boat from Bear Creek in Baltimore County after a judge gave him the chance to do so.
Michael Anthony Danna, 52, was charged in June 2009 with littering more than 500 pounds in state waters after Natural Resources Police saw him trying to sink his 1967 36-foot Chris Craft cabin cruiser on Bear Creek at the Beltway. Last August, District Judge Norman R. Stone III accepted Danna's guilty plea but delayed sentencing until this week so Danna could remove the vessel.
This Tuesday, before the sentencing, Natural Resources Police officers found the vessel was still in the creek. Police said they took photographs of the dilapidated boat along with submerged gas tanks and engines and trash from the cruiser on the shore. The judge then sentenced Danna to 18 months in the Baltimore County Detention Center for letting the boat remain in State waters and polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
Police said Baltimore County will remove the vessel at an estimated cost of $13,000.
Police said Baltimore County will remove the vessel at an estimated cost of $13,000.
Comments
So who foots the bill for the $13K? I hope the county makes this guy pay.
Posted by: Gilbert | July 8, 2010 10:54 PM
So, this putz goes to jail for 18 months, the county now has to pay $13,000 to remove the boat and the taxpayers have to pay for his meals and medical while in jail too. What a deal! The judge should have also ordered him to pay the cost of his incarceration and the costs to remove the boat too.
Posted by: BayCkayaker | July 9, 2010 7:19 AM