Three New Yorkers on a cruise ship left the ship without paying for purchases and were subsequently sentenced to three months in prison.
According to USA Today, the St. John Source a newspaper based in the Virgin Islands, reported that "Sam Gross, 25, Joseph Herskovitz, 27, and Jacob Eisenberger, 29, were sentenced to up to three months in prison on Thursday for defrauding or conspiring to defraud cruise lines."
They were also sentenced to house arrest after they will be released from prison for several months. USA Today reported that the three men went onto the Majesty of the Seas, a Royal Carribean Boat, where they purchased merchandise and had large bills that they charged with their ship-issued charge cards. They then simply walked off the boat a day after going on it without paying for anything.
the St. John Source reports that U.S. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez "sentenced Gross to serve three months in prison and three months of home confinement, and ordered him to pay $36,283.91 in restitution. He sentenced Herskovitz to serve two months in prison and three months of home confinement, and ordered him to pay $19,005.97 in restitution. Eisenberger was sentenced to serve 15 days in prison and two months of home confinement, and ordered to pay $1,860.08 in restitution."
USA Today reported that a few weeks after the incident something similar happened on a Carnival Cruise ship, with two of the same three men and then "a few weeks later, on Princess Cruises' Dawn Princess, according to court documents cited by the St. John Source".
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