Two Florida teen boaters caught on a viral video dumping garbage into the Atlantic Ocean Sunday each face a pollution charge and could serve jail time if convicted, NBC News reported Friday.
The teenagers, a 15-year-old from Gulf Stream and a 16-year-old from Boynton Beach, each face a one-count of third-degree felony charge of causing pollution intended to harm or injure human health or welfare, animal, plant, or aquatic life or property, NBC News reported, citing arrest reports by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). The suspects reportedly turned themselves in.
Each suspect could bag a maximum possible prison term of five years and a $50,000 fine if convicted, according to the report.
The suspects were sailing along the Boca Raton Inlet on Florida‘s East Coast as they departed the annual Boca Bash — a well-attended boating party held on Lake Boca —…
