Miami (WTFF) – An “illegal” party boat got busted by the feds.
The yacht named No Rules II is infamous on social media for its wild parties. Angry neighbors complained, leading federal agents to board the illegal party boat on Wednesday while NBC 6 watched.
Last year the feds said No Rules II was “operating illegally as a charter vessel with passengers for hire.”
Seth Alan Gissen, the boat owner, was given a hand-delivered letter to “immediately cease operations.”
The Florida Man continued his shenanigans.
His neighbors in Bay Point on Biscayne Boulevard have been complaining about Seth for years. The neighbors are so closed off that they literally have a wall around their community.
They’ve called 911 over 50 times in the past few years to report fighting, drugs, loud music, etc.
“He’s constantly having a party on his boat,” complained one neighbor. “Then when they return a lot of them are intoxicated, are trashed, there are sometimes fights.”
In August, the Coast Guard caught his boat overloaded with about 50 party-goers, who Seth claimed were “friends.” This “was not a charter,” he told the Coast Guard agents.
The passengers said they were celebrating a bachelor party. Each had paid $5,500 for the charter.
A week later, the same kind of thing. Too many people on an illegal charter.
As agents raided the Florida Man’s private property, “NO RULES II began discharging sewage waste, which sprayed onto the Coast Guard officers and vessel.” Seth was “standing near the vessels controls at the time,” according to a Criminal Complaint in Case 1:18-mj-03218-PAW from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered on 8/13.
Download Criminal Complaint 1:18-mj-03218-PAW (PDF)
A colleague of Seth’s emailed us, first asking us to remove the article, and then asking us to modify the title, claiming the sewage spraying “was a false accusation and there are no pending charges on this issue.”
The Special Agent of the United States Coast Guard who made those statements was under oath. He’s been employed by the Coast Guard Investigative Service Department of Homeland Security for 12 years. It’s possible he was lying, but those are the facts of what’s on record.
That case was terminated and the charges were moved to Case 1:18-cr-20721-FAM on 8/30.
Download Criminal Complaint 1:18-cr-20721-FAM (PDF)
In the new case, which is still open, the sewage is again mentioned in the original Criminal Complaint, but is not mentioned in the Indictment. That’s probably because the sewage spraying is not what he’s being charged with:
Count: 1 – VIOLATION OF A CAPTAIN OF THE PORT ORDER
Count: 2 – FALSE STATEMENTS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF AN AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
Count: 3 – OBSTRUCTING A PENDING PROCEEDING BEFORE AN AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES
Regardless, he faces federal charges for operating an illegal charter.
He was jailed briefly and posted a 50K bond to get out.
The trial for his case is scheduled for October 9, 2018 at 2:00 pm in Miami.
His mugshots have already been scrubbed from the internet, it seems.
“His attorney, Joel Hischorn, told NBC 6 that Gissen had no ill will but did not use the best judgment.”
Regular poor people with a lousy lawyer would get six years in prison for these federal crimes if convicted, but his attorney “doesn’t believe what Gissen is accused of rises to a level of a criminal act.”
Obvious he created a biz so to party and pretend he is still 25 years old… then to attract young attractive women with low self esteem and IQ points to part with. PARTY ON !
Seth is a good man who allowed me to shoot a porn video on his boat. He has paid his debt to society.
Seth is a good man who allowed me to shoot a porn video on his boat. He has paid his debt to society.
Delete these fake accusations. Seth is a great man and runs a successful real business. He is a good person who liked to enjoy the weekends on his boat. This whole article is phony news.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Miami-Party-Boat-Busted-and-Owner-Charged-with-Operating-an-Illegal-Charter-491124791.html
Delete this article? We have a tough guy on our hands. What are you gonna do about it little girl
You stupid faggots better delete this article. Things might happen to people who ignore this advice.
He is a Disgrace!!! How can he get away with this???????
All fun and gamers until someone actually dies from his incompetence. That us why we have a Coast Guard, to defend us from these idiots. I have spent 32 years in the Navy, recently retired. I doubt this clown has any idea what to do when he is accidently in a bad situation on the water, his fault or not. Bad things happen on the water that you cannot walk away from …. it is water after all. Not enough info in the post about the “spraying of feces” to understand what is meant. Spraying a boarding party with anything is a bad move … if it was deliberate, then good on the boarding team for not over-reacting. Spraying someone with CHT, sewage in Navy speak, is really bad. I doubt this man has ever faced a true life-threatening challenge in his time on this planet, otherwise he might not be so careless with the lives of others.