Court Orders $45K in Restitution Over Sunken Ship in Bainbridge Island’s Eagle Harbor

The former owner of a sunken tugboat owes more than $44,000 on restitution to the state, according to a Kitsap County judge’s order on Monday.

The state attorney general’s office issued a press release on the ruling, presented here in its entirety:

At a hearing today in Kitsap County Superior Court, a judge ordered the former owner of the sunken tugboat Chickamauga to pay more than $44,000 in restitution to the state departments of Ecology and Natural Resources.

The case, prosecuted by the Attorney General

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