J.P.'s Shellfish owner sentenced to 45 day prison term, fined $100,000 for illegal lobster purcheses
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Foster's Daily Democrat] - October 31, 2014 -
PORTLAND, Maine, A Kittery, Maine man was sentenced Wednesday to 45 days in prison for structuring currency transactions and for illegally purchasing lobsters.
John W. Price, 59, was also fined $100,000 in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II. Court records reveal that between 2008 and 2010, Price, the owner of J.P.'s Shellfish, a seafood distributor in Eliot, Maine, purchased lobsters for cash from a dock employee of the Spruce Head Fisherman's Co-op in South Thomaston, Maine...
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