Unlicensed charter boat captain sentenced in fatal Hudson River capsizing
The captain of an unlicensed charter boat has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a Hudson River capsizing that killed a woman and a boy. Richard Cruz, 33, of Elizabeth, will also have to pay $50,000 in restitution for the funeral expenses of the two drowning victims, a 48-year-old woman and her 7-year-old nephew.