A Southeast commercial fisherman was sentenced to 215 days in prison for a combination of offenses, including wildlife violations committed between 2007 and 2011.
Alaska Wildlife Troopers said in a dispatch that James Royal Seymour, 36, of Southeast Alaska, was sentenced in Juneau District Court last Thursday for eight separate cases.
Troopers said some of the offenses included commercial crab violations in Hoonah, Petersburg and Juneau, such as illegal storage of crab pots.
Seymour was also charged with contempt of court, failure to appear and violating conditions of release as a result of failing to attend multiple court hearings, troopers said.
Court records show Judge Keith Levy imposed 170 days with 160 days suspended for illegal storage of crab pots; 60 days with no time suspended for failure to appear; 210 days with 195 days suspended for contempt of court; and 90 days with no time suspended for another charge of contempt of court.
Levy revoked Seymour’s probation in two previous cases and imposed suspended jail time: 30 days with no time suspended for a previous 2008 drunken driving conviction, and 10 days with zero suspended for a previous 2010 driving with license cancelled, suspended or revoked conviction.
The violating conditions of release charge was dismissed by prosecutors.
Troopers said Seymour was wanted on several outstanding warrants when an off-duty Wildlife Trooper located him at a swimming pool in Ketchikan in May. He was arrested by Ketchikan city police officers, and has since been held at the Ketchikan Correctional Center.
Seymour commercially fished from the fishing vessel Leading Lady.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (13)
Add commentWell, that's short and to the
Well, that's short and to the point. Abby, could you work your magic so we may learn more?
Magic ...
Sure, doing what I can now ... should be fixed momentarily!
I hope...
...this is the guy who put a thousand pots in tiny Echo Cove, destroying a resource available to locals on the road.
This type of behavior should
This type of behavior should disqualify him from commercial fishing...period! Talk about a bad example.
No Respect
This clown has zero respect for the wildlife or the laws that govern the commercial fishing industry. He needs to be sent to a prison in Kansas and never be allowed into Alaska territory again.
Agree Lat, it is sickening to
Agree Lat, it is sickening to run a boat through the gauntlet that these crabbers place on us locals as we fish out of Echo. And of course all the crab that’s disappearing.
One thing that has always
One thing that has always bugged me about commercial fishermen is the attitude some of them have that they should have first dibs on all the fish in the ocean and that "sport fishermen" are a pain in the ass. I don't know how many times through the years I have heard commercial fishermen cussing about all the *&&^%$##@$ sport and subsistence fishermen taking all the fish. Yeah, right!!
CORRECTION EMILY (OR ABBY?)
Seymour's boat is the "Loyal Lady"
A lot more time
Than Arne Fuglvog got.....
(He must not have been willing to rat out his friends)
ah ha
arne has only one friend left and she is shaking in her boots!
sentenced to 530 days, then suspends 315 days
because the defendant showed himself to be so redeemed with his 2 contempt of court charges and failure to appear while he was on parole for drunk driving and driving w/o a license-where he was already given suspended sentences.
He got all of 25 days for the crab pots and dropped the charges on his violation of terms of his release altogether.
He could have been left to earn time off for good behavior but Judge Keith Levy saw how much he hadn't changed at all so he cut over half of his sentence at the start.
You can't tell me judges aren't getting side deals in Alaska.
@PeytonPlaceAK
I recommend emailing Emily, emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Thanks!