North Carolina man pleads guilty to making hoax call

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A Washington, N.C., man was sentenced in the Eastern District Court of North Carolina in Raleigh for making a false official statement to the Coast Guard, Oct. 7, 2008. On Sept. 19, 2007, Coast Guard Sector North Carolina received a call from William Foster, Jr.  saying that the F/V Cracker Boy spilled oil and gas in to the Wrights Creek area of Beaufort, N.C. In an interview...