Immigration agents send tugboat crew home from Washington

There is more fallout from the decommissioned ferry tow that went wrong in mid-August.

SEATTLE — Washington State Ferries sold two decommissioned vessels for $100,000 each to a buyer who had plans to tow the boats to South America this month. But the move did not happen. 

Now, there is more fallout from the ferry tow that went wrong.

“This could have been a disaster,” said Rich Shively, the executive director of Seattle Seafarers Center, a nonprofit operating on a mission to care for seafarers in Puget Sound.

The tugboat called Wycliffe had a working crew onboard. “Four crew members from Peru,

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