SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The fugitive founder of the environmental group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said Costa Rica charged him with a crime that doesn't exist in that country because it's being a "serving boy" to Japan, which wants him extradited. Paul Watson, 62, was charged in the Central American country with endangering a Costa Rican shark fishing boat and its crew in 2002. In a telephone interview aired Wednesday on Costa Rica's Rainforest Radio, Watson said his lawyers told him that crime doesn't exist in the country. "Costa Rica has been a serving boy to Japan in this case," said Watson, adding that he suspects Costa Rica wants to arrest him and turn him over to Japan in...
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