A Quincy man is facing trespassing and disorderly conduct charges after jumping into a tank containing a shark at the New England Aquarium Thursday evening, news partner The Patriot Ledger reported.Stephen Pellegrine, 51, of Quincy, was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on Friday on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct after jumping into the tank Thursday evening, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.“Fortunately the sharks had already been fed,” Wark said in an email Sunday.According to the New England Aquarium’s website, the four-story tank is 26 feet deep, 40 feet wide and it holds 200,000 gallons of salt water. It includes a coral reef and hundreds of Caribbean animals, including sea turtles, stingrays, eels and fish.Pellegrine was held on $1,500 cash bail and ordered to undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and to stay away from the aquarium. He is due back in court on July 23.

A Quincy man is facing trespassing and disorderly conduct charges after jumping into a tank containing a shark at the New England Aquarium Thursday evening, news partner The Patriot Ledger reported.

Stephen Pellegrine, 51, of Quincy, was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on Friday on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct after jumping into the tank Thursday evening, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.


“Fortunately the sharks had already been fed,” Wark said in an email Sunday.

According to the New England Aquarium’s website, the four-story tank is 26 feet deep, 40 feet wide and it holds 200,000 gallons of salt water. It includes a coral reef and hundreds of Caribbean animals, including sea turtles, stingrays, eels and fish.

Pellegrine was held on $1,500 cash bail and ordered to undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and to stay away from the aquarium. He is due back in court on July 23.