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Edgartown, Massachusetts: A 60-year-old man was charged on Friday with disorderly conduct for allegedly lying about seeing two great white sharks off the island where the movie Jaws was filmed, authorities said.
Edgartown police Chief Paul Condlin said Michael Lopenzo warned people to get out of the water at the Joseph Silva State Beach on Martha's Vineyard on Thursday.
Lopenzo claimed he had seen two sharks about 6.71 metres long and 1,361kg each while he was working on a fishing boat. Officials closed the beach, but Condlin said investigators later determined Lopenzo was lying.
In 1974, Steven Spielberg chose Martha's Vineyard for filming the movie Jaws.
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