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A recidivist seafood swindler who once posed as a phony cruise line executive to pull off a six-figure shrimp scam is once again in hot water over a brazen shellfish caper in which he allegedly made off with “hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth” of king and snow crab.
David Subil, 51, was arrested following a manhunt that spanned multiple states and ended with a complex sting operation, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday and obtained by The Daily Beast. He has stolen millions of dollars of food over the course of his extensive criminal career, and was accused as a teen of attempting to kill a Florida police officer, court records show. That charge was ultimately dropped.
Subil now stands accused of interstate transportation of stolen property, as well as conspiracy, and faces decades in prison if convicted. Reached on Friday by The Daily Beast, Subil’s lawyer, David Fernandez, declined to comment.
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