Thomas and Powers don't want to alert any would-be poachers with the noise of greater speed.
Thomas and Powers both studied biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Thomas and Powers have a specific target in mind this morning, a man named Bob who they believe has been illegally catching striped bass off Breezy Point for many months.
Lauro says that the incident was the fourth time in two months that Powers and Thomas had stopped them.
Perhaps he knows that Powers and Thomas have nothing on him this morning.
On visits to higher-end establishments, Powers and Thomas usually give a courtesy call so they can enter through the back.
Powers and Thomas make up exactly two-thirds of the total number of environmental cops who cover the 650 miles of NYC shoreline.
The state only provides a modest bump in salary to cover the higher cost of living (both Powers and Thomas live on Rockaway).
Powers and Thomas have made some high-profile busts: earlier this year on a plainclothes assignment, they caught two poachers with 49 illegal striped bass.
At the dock, Powers and Thomas fill out the paperwork for the two violations to each of the men: Benitto, Bill Dunphy and Joseph Lauro.
Powers and Thomas routinely check out menus from restaurants ranging from the high end to the low end, looking for the key words: wild striped bass.
Both Powers and Thomas say they see the men on the lobster boat tossing buckets of fish overboard and kicking the few stragglers off the backless transom of the boat.
For the story, I accompanied New York Department of Conservation officers Jamie Powers and Kevin Thomas on a sting operation in Manhattan.
At 3:15 in the morning, Jamie Powers and Kevin Thomas, environmental conservation officers for New York state, ease their 31-foot boat into the inky waters of Jamaica Bay, which bisects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
More recently, however, Justice Thomas has been siding with greater police powers, casting Justice Scalia into a minority with liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Powers stays on the lobster boat and Thomas follows behind, back to the docks.
Mrs Thomas said she was responding to a consultation on draft plans which revealed "overwhelming support" to introduce the powers.
Its leading proponent is Thomas Perez, the Justice Department official Mr. Obama nominated to be secretary of labor, a department whose enforcement powers blanket the workplace.
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