Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold
Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold 6 hours agoShareSaveGrace Eliza GoodwinShareSaveGetty ImagesGold bars taken from the SS Central America ship are displayed at the Museum of American Financial History in 2003 in New York CityA US deep-sea treasure hunter who refused to disclose the location of a famed shipwreck’s gold coins has been released from prison after a decade, with 500 coins still unaccounted for.Tommy Thompson, 73, discovered millions of dollars’ worth of sunken treasure from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold, off the coast of South Carolina in 1988. Investors in Thompson’s venture accused him of cheating them out of promised proceeds and after years on the run he was jailed in 2015 on a criminal…
