Deep-sea treasure hunter freed after decade behind bars for refusing to reveal gold location

Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who spent more than a decade in federal custody for refusing to disclose the location of a cache of gold coins from a historic shipwreck, was released from prison.

Thompson, 73, walked out of a federal correctional facility Wednesday after a judge ruled that his continued incarceration had lost its "coercive effect."

For the better part of ten years, Thompson had remained behind bars, asserting that a lapse in memory regarding the whereabouts of...