Coast Guard Rescue Team Shot at by Skipper They Were Rescuing

(coffeeordie.com) – Federal prosecutors have charged a catamaran skipper for firing at a US Coast Guard helicopter aircrew trying to rescue him in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
Robert Stoudt, 50, made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby in New Orleans on Monday, Sept. 19.
Charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and destruction of an aircraft, Stoudt remains incarcerated in Davant’s Plaquemines Parish Detention Center pending a Friday-morning detention hearing. Read more