When authorities were finally able to search his vehicle, they found heroin, a stolen shotgun, and a suspended license.
Later, he was charged with drug possession and grand theft auto in Phoenix while joy-riding with another man's wife, and still later, in February 2019, having been stopped by park rangers for a possible DUI, he led state troopers on a dangerous chase around rural Washington in an RV. Then, when sharing a ride home from a Washington casino with three new 'friends,' he was robbed and beaten within an inch of his life. First, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Seattle. That loss came during the sixth season of the show, and Jake, who had often struggled with drugs and was even suspected of doing them on the clock, began to fall apart shortly thereafter. Jake Harris (pictured left, with his brother, Josh) lost his father, Phil, the immensely popular captain of the Cornelia Marie, in January 2010.
