•     ON 9/25/10 at approximately 1945 Game Warden received a call from the Flathead County Sherriff''s Department stating that there was a sinking boat on Lake Five near West Glacier, MT.
•     Game Warden arrived to Lake Five at 2030 with a Sherriff''s deputy and could not find any boats on the lake.  The deputy stated that he spoke with an individual camped in the area.  Subject said told the deputy that a boat had sunken near the dock of a house near where he was camped.  
•     Game Warden responded to the house and found all of the doors open and the television playing inside.  Game Warden went to the dock to check for people in the water and found a boat sunken in the lake but no persons were in the area. There appeared to be fuel leaking from the sunken boat.  Game Warden contacted both North Valley and Kalispell Regional hospitals.  No one had entered the hospital from a boat accident.  Game Warden also contacted the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to report the fuel leak.  Game Warden waited by the house for two hours and no one arrived at the house.
•     The next morning on 9/26/10 at approximately 0900 Game Warden returned to the residence and contacted three people.  They stated that they had sunken the boat the day before around 1500 and that two were in the boat at the time.  
•     Game Warden conducted a recorded and Mirandized interview with operator who stated the following:
-     He was driving the boat towards the dock and when he decelerated the bow of the boat sunk into the water and capsized the boat.  He scraped his knee when he fell in the boat as it capsized.
-     They were drinking on shore but not in the boat at the time of the accident.  He was not impaired at the time of the accident.
•     After interviewing operator, Game Warden introduced opreator to the representative of the OES who gave them equipment to stop the oil and gas leakage from the sunken vessel.
•     Game Warden cited operator for failing to report an accident over $100 in damage.

West Glacier                  