Filipino crewman admits faking fall from cargo ship at Port of Mobile

[joebloggs]

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A Filipino man who jumped off of the cargo ship he was working on earlier this year pleaded guilty today to faking the entire incident and prompting a costly search-and-rescue operation.



http://blog.al.com/live/2012/12/fili...ts_faking.html

[Terpe]

Not the first and likely not the last.

Living in Yokohama, I encountered plenty of similar cases. Plenty who just 'jumped' ship too.
Back then, I think there was nothing done.
These days, I just don't know.

Some of the waters around Japan are pretty dangerous. Makes you wonder how many never made it to land

[nnomad]

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A Filipino man who jumped off of the cargo ship he was working on earlier this year pleaded guilty today to faking the entire incident and prompting a costly search-and-rescue operation.

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he threw one of his shoes overboard and left the other on the ladder, making it appear as though he had fallen. Then he jumped into the water, swam to shore and took a taxicab to his cousin’s house in Spanish Fort, according to court documents.

http://blog.al.comg/live/2012/12/fil...ts_faking.html

Good luck to the guy !!!!!!!!

[RickyR]

It was a real hassle on the cruise ship when people jumped ship in the USA, would often result in all shore leave banned for the subsequent US Ports.... Grrr...
However the US Border Protection usually got the guys. Most of the Filipinos who jumped ship had family in the USA, but had forgotten that 3 or 4 years previously they'd completed a visa application (C1-D) to allow them to enter the US as a seafarer, one of the questions of which was do you have family in the USA and please give their addresses. The Border Officers just looked in their files and would head straight to those addresses and usually found the offender!

[grahamw48]

Did they find the others ?
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