Ketchikan man pleads guilty to theft of crab pots

Ketchikan man pleads guilty to theft of crab pots

Dungeness crab in a bucket on the deck of a fishing boat. (Jack Darrell/KRBD) A Ketchikan man pleaded guilty in August to two charges related to illegal fishing and theft of Dungeness crab pots, according to the Alaska State Troopers.  49-year-old David Vest was arrested and his commercial fishing boat, the 32-foot Silver Surfer, was seized after an Alaska Wildlife Trooper stakeout last year. It was near Stone Island, between Ketchikan and Wrang…