UNITED STATES v. EGAN

No. 80 Cr. 207 (RWS).

501 F.Supp. 1252 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Bartholomew EGAN, Richard Hart, Angel Daniel Pacheco, and Jose Pedro Vasquez-Castro, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

On Motion to Suppress July 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., by David W. Denton, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, for the United States.

Gerald Lefcourt, New York City, for Egan.

Homans, Hamilton, Dahmen & Marshall, Boston, Mass., for Hart by William P. Homans, Jr., Boston, Mass.

Lavin & Batchelder, New York City, for Vasquez-Castro by Harry C. Batchelder, Jr., New York City.

Louis R. Aidala, New York City, for Pacheco.


SWEET, District Judge.

On March 23, 1980, officers from the Coast Guard cutters CAPE STRAIT and VIGOROUS boarded the vessel JOSE GREGORIO in rough seas approximately forty miles south of Montauk, Long Island. The crew members included defendants Bartholomew Egan and Richard Hart, who are United States citizens, and Angel Daniel Pacheco and Jose Pedro Vasquez-Castro, citizens of Colombia. The crew members denied knowledge of registry of the ship, though the flags of...

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