Vadim Humenyuk recently begged guilty to running a business freight ship in San Francisco Bay while intoxicated, revealed united state Attorney David L. Anderson as well as UNITED STATE Coast Guard Captain of thePort Marie Byrd The appeal was approved by united state Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixon.
In begging guilty, Humenyuk, 51, of Izmail, Ukraine, confessed that he was intoxicated while acting as the master of the Rainbow Quest, a Gibraltar- flagged mass provider.
The 590-foot lengthy Rainbow Quest remained in San Francisco Bay as well as preparing to cruise to South Korea when Humenyuk was discovered to be intoxicated.
“I appreciate the outstanding collaboration from the San Francisco Bar Pilots, Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Attorney’s office for ensuring safety on our waters, and protecting the maritime public, property, and environment,” statedCaptain Byrd “The Coast Guard and our partners will not tolerate operating a vessel under the influence from any mariner, much less a commercial ship captain preparing to get a large cargo ship underway in San Francisco Bay.”
The examination started on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, when a San Francisco Bar Pilot gotten in touch with Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Vessel Traffic Service employees reporting that the captain of the Rainbow Quest seemed intoxicated. UNITED STATE Coast Guard detectives carried out soberness examinations to Humenyuk late on the night of December 10, 2019, as well as the morning of December 11, 2019.
After Humenyuk fell short the soberness examinations, he was billed with running a non-recreational vessel drunk of alcohol, in offense of 46 USC 2302( c), a Class An offense.
Humenyuk encounters an optimum legal charge of as much as one year of imprisonment, an extra year of monitored launch, as well as a penalty of as much as $100,000. Magistrate Judge Hixson set up Humenyuk’s sentencing hearing for January 3, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.
