According to the detailed — but redacted — findings of Master Charles Swartwood III, were multiple affronts to the American justice system that laid Yucabian low, costing him his boat, business, home and place in the New Bedford fishing community.

Swartwood's narrative of the Yucabian case begins with the successful effort by then-special agent-in-charge Andrew Cohen to dissuade Peter Hanlon, a well respected agent of the Massachusetts Environmental Police, from testifying for Yucabian, who was facing charges of fishing in closed areas.

Hanlon could have testified that he had seen Yucabian's boat at the New Bedford docks when the newly introduced VMS or vessel monitoring system, according to enforcers, placed it at sea.

But, as Swartwood wrote, Cohen and his agents put enough pressure on Hanlon, threatening him with revocation of his credentials to be deputized, that Hanlon decided against helping Yucabian.