AK - Marian Beck, 68, charged with attempting to cut off a floatplane with her boat - Halibut Cove, 23 Aug 2022

[ifindedout]

This happened a few months ago, but there hasn't been anything about it in MSM until now when an indictment came down.
Accused is a local landowner and restaurateur, as well as a licensed mariner:

Woman accused in viral Halibut Cove encounter between boat, float plane indicted on federal charges

A Halibut Cove restaurant owner has been indicted on federal charges after a video went viral on social media showing the restaurant owner circling a float plane in a boat at dangerously close proximity.

www.alaskasnewssource.com

Direct link to the indictment:

Halibut Cove Woman Indicted on Federal Charges

www.justice.gov

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[WingsOverTX]

Reading this profile, I suspect she may have had some legitimate concern that led to her actions in such a remote place.

However, breaking the law, if true, is not the solution. MOO

Marian Beck: The Saltry Restaurant | The Filson Journal

The first thing you notice about Marian Beck is her hands. Graying Alaskan fishermen all have the same hands, swollen and powerful from decades of picking fighting salmon from gillnets, stacking seining gear, or baiting hooks. Her hands look like they’ve been taken from someone else’s body...

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[WingsOverTX]

Observers say that she was annoyed with all the tourism activity in the cove, which is on an island largely owned and controlled by the Tillion family for generations.

Flying community abuzz over indictment of restaurateur who endangered floatplane passengers in Halibut Cove

A federal grand jury charged Marian Tillion Beck of Halibut Cove last week with willfully harassing the pilot of an aircraft, Eric Lee, who was attempting to taxi his floatplane out of the cove on Aug. 23. Lee operates Alaska Ultimate Safaris in Homer and was preparing to take a group of people...

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[TGIRecovered]

Observers say that she was annoyed with all the tourism activity in the cove, which is on an island largely owned and controlled by the Tillion family for generations.

Flying community abuzz over indictment of restaurateur who endangered floatplane passengers in Halibut Cove

A federal grand jury charged Marian Tillion Beck of Halibut Cove last week with willfully harassing the pilot of an aircraft, Eric Lee, who was attempting to taxi his floatplane out of the cove on Aug. 23. Lee operates Alaska Ultimate Safaris in Homer and was preparing to take a group of people...

mustreadalaska.com

The comments section below the article is hilarious! Lots of locals chiming in. The video is clear. She did circles and figure-eights trying to sink that little plane, very reckless!

 

[ifindedout]

Pleaded guilty in November. Sentencing hearing continued to January.

Halibut Cove woman in viral seaplane incident agrees to plea | Homer News

Marion Tillion Beck intends to plead guilty to midsemeanor gross negligent operation of a vessel

www.homernews.com

A woman accused of using her boat to harass a chartered floatplane as it was taxiing through Halibut Cove last year intends to plead guilty to misdemeanor gross negligent operation of a vessel, according to documents filed Nov. 1 in U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.

Marian Tillion Beck, 70, is seeking one-year probation and a $25,000 fine, according to a sentencing memorandum filed by Beck’s attorney, Michelle Nesbett.

Beck, the owner of the Saltry restaurant and a daughter of the late Halibut Cove patriarch Clem Tillion, has also agreed to relinquish her Master-Captain’s License to the U.S. Coast Guard.

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A sentencing hearing originally set for Nov. 8 was moved to Jan. 23, 2024.