A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani man to 40 years in prison on Thursday for charges relating to the death of two Navy SEALs who drowned in the Arabian Sea while attempting to board the man’s boat in 2024. Muhammad Pahlawan was the captain of an unflagged vessel that SEALs seized in January 2024 as it smuggled Iranian arms to Houthi rebels.

Chief Special Warfare Operator Christopher Chambers, 37, slipped and fell into the water during the raid, weighed down by heavy equipment. Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Nathan Gage Ingram, 27, jumped in to save Chambers, but also drowned.

Pahlawan was convicted over the summer on several charges, according to court records, including conspiring to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization, providing material support to

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