Ship captain convicted in deadly Mobile port accident

A federal jury today convicted a ship captain of criminal misconduct in a deadly docks crane collapse on Mobile’s waterfront.

Wolfgang Schroder, 58, was convicted in U.S. District Court of misconduct in the March 2 accident at the Alabama State Docks container facility.
At sentencing in February, Schroder, a German native who lives in Ireland, could get up to 10 years in prison. He was arrested in April on a criminal complaint by the U.S. Coast Guard in Houston.