ocean key resort key west commits grand theft

for those of you following heres what happened today. i was in touch with coast guard licensing agency regularily keeping an eye open for person who purchased vessel to file for new title. i got word new ownership papers were filed on my vessel and was given name of person who applied. i called gentleman who was in miami yesterday taking boat to jacksonville from key west. i told him boat was stolen and sold illegally. now this man not knowing me from adam was shocked. he called a very reputable maritime attorney in jacksonville after hearing my story and hired this man to help. i spoke to the boat purchaser again today he gave me attorneys phone number asking me to call i did. this attorney was just hired yesterday but his client told him what the story was i gave him and he was shocked. he told me (attorney)after talking to his client and finding out this boat was taken from out of area and brought back to hotel for them to claim statuate this attorney told the hotels attorney today by phone he represents the man who bought boat and told attorney under statuate 328.17 it is illegal to go take posession of a boat bring it back and claim this lien. (at this point he didnt talk with or even know me yet) so here you have a maritime attorney which doesnt even represent me telling hotel attorney yes its against law what they did. the man who bought boat was in ft. lauderdale florida today(about half way home) he left boat at marina got rental car heading all the way up state to meet attorney at 9am(hes not a happy camper)i was also told the week before auction he met with boat broker i was contracted with to sell boat which took him to see boat. after seeing boat he went back home called my broker the following sunday to make an offer on boat. the broker(which i had contract with)told him he didnt need to make offer to owner because hotel was auctioning boat off the next morning and he would represent him in the purchase. this past friday i spoke to broker involved he assured me that he had no knowledge of how the boat got in the hotels posession but after talking to the buyer and me getting the story he told me if he had the knowlege that the boat was taken the way it was he would have told new buyer when looking at boat and would have advised him not to purchase vessel. i will post more this week as it becomes available