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Another Lobster Mobster Trial Begins

Filed at 6:11 pm under On the Water and Fishing and Commercial Fishing and Animals and Fish and Lobster by Keys

Jury selection began Monday and open arguments are expected today in the lobster trap molesting trial of three Key West residents. Harry Bethel Jr. faces two felony counts of lobster trap molesting for allegedly pulling fishermens traps near Mayland Shoal in the Atlantic Ocean off Sugarloaf Key in January 2008. Bethel, Lawrence Pinder, 59, and M. Shamus Davis, 30, rejected a plea agreement that called for a year in prison.Bethel is the namesake of a former Key West city commissioner and current Key West Bight Board chairman.

via Mile Markers | KeysNews.com.

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