Sale Comes Up Short in Drug Boat Auction
From United Press International
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. —
Federal authorities had hoped for a hefty sum Thursday when they auctioned off a 65-foot fishing trawler seized in an international drug-smuggling case.
They got $10.
“As far as I know, it is lowest bid for a ship in Rhode Island since the state entered the Union in 1790,” U.S. Marshal Donald Wyatt said.
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