State v. Tobin

¶1 Douglas Tobin pleaded guilty to illegally harvesting large amounts of crab and geoduck from Puget Sound. The victims were the State and the Puyallup, Squaxin, and Nisqually tribes. The trial court ordered Tobin to pay restitution for, among other things, the State’s extraordinary investigative and administrative costs and the cost of resurveying impacted geoduck tracts. Tobin now argues that these costs were not sufficiently related to his crimes to justify their inclusion in his restitution. However, these costs were caused by Tobin’s criminal activity, and

Bridge, J.

*520Tobin has not shown…