“A sailor from China accused of murdering the captain and first mate of a Taiwanese fishing vessel and taking control of the ship made his first appearance in federal court yesterday in Honolulu,” the Honolulu Advertiser reports.

[Shi] is accused of stabbing captain Chen Chung-She and first mate Li Da Feng aboard the 195-foot fishing vessel Full Means No. 2 on March 14 in international waters southeast of Hawai’i.

Shi was a cook aboard the ship and demanded just before the stabbing that the ship head back to China, investigators have said.

Authorities say that Shi ordered the captain’s body thrown overboard and that the first mate’s body was found in one of the ship’s freezers. The crew regained control of the ship after about two days […]

…Yeah, but for those two days that boat was fun central, I bet! Them communists can party, y’all!

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