Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez

A Virginia fisherman was sentenced Thursday to nearly 20 years in prison after admitting to murdering a crewmate and attacking others with a hammer aboard a scalloping vessel off the coast of Nantucket in 2018.

This week a Virginia fisherman pleaded guilty to murder and other charges after attacking his crewmates with a hammer and a knife aboard a scalloping vessel off the Nantucket coast in 2018.