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Man pleads guilty in boating accident in which woman lost her arm

At the time of the incident, Nicole Berthiaume was a 19-year-old guest on the Naut Guilty, a boat owned by Benjamin Urbelis, a Boston defense attorney and night club promoter. David L. Ryan / Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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The man operating a boat during a gruesome 2015 accident on Boston Harbor in which a 19-year-old woman lost her right arm pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges stemming from the incident.

With the woman looking on in Suffolk Superior Court, Alexander Williams, 26, pleaded guilty to charges of negligent operation of a boat, furnishing alcohol to minors, and tampering with evidence in connection with the accident on May 30, 2015.

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