PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Two nuclear submarine sailors, including one assigned to help crewmates stay out of trouble, continue to be held on high bail, accused of brutally beating a man and leaving him near death on a Portsmouth, N.H., street.

One of the accused crew members of the USS Greeneville was on duty and driving a Navy “safe-ride” van, a shuttle service that picks up sailors, including those who might have had too much to drink while off duty.
In court Thursday, Seamen Gerald Smith of Hawaii and Sandy Portobanco of Inglewood, Ca., did not contest that police had probable cause to arrest them in last month’s beating of Stephen Huntress, a former town councilor in bordering Kittery, Maine.
Huntress still is hospitalized.
The sailors are being held on $200,000 bail.