August 15, 2022 —
A Virginia fisherman was sentenced Thursday to nearly 20 years in prison for murdering a crewmate and attacking others with a hammer aboard a scalloping vessel off the coast of Nantucket in 2018.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 31-year-old Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez was sentenced to 235 months — more than 19 and a half years — in prison followed by three years of probation.
According to the office, the Mexican national is in the U.S. illegally and will face deportation after his sentence.
Meave Vazquez pleaded guilty in March to one count each of second degree murder, attempted murder and assault with a dangerous weapon.
He was one of seven crew members on the scalloping vessel The Captain Billy Haver when he attacked three fellow crewmates about 50 miles off the Nantucket coast in September 2018.