AT APPROX. 4:30PM, AGENT RECEIVED A CALL FROM STPSO DEPUTY SAYING A SAILBOAT THAT WAS UNDER POWER HAD JUST COLLIDED WITH A DOCK AT A NAVIGABLE WATERWAY IN SLIDELL, LA. DEPUTY LOCATED THE VESSEL, WHICH WAS UNDERWAY AND HAD LEFT THE SCENE, & STOPPED HIM NOT FAR FROM THE ACCIDENT SITE & TIED THE VESSEL TO A PRIVATE DOCK. AGENT ARRIVED AT THE LOCATION OF THE STOP AND CAME INTO CONTACT WITH THE OPERATOR OF THE VESSEL. AGENT NOTICED THAT OPERATOR HAD SLURRED SPEACH AND HIS BREATH HAD THE ODOR OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE. DEPUTY BEGAN THE FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS ON OPERATOR, TO WHICH HE FAILED. AT THIS TIME OPERATOR WAS ARRESTED, ADVISED OF HIS RIGHTS AND TRANSPORTED TO ST. TAMMANY PARISH S.O. IN COVINGTON, LA WHERE HE WAS ADVISED OF HIS RIGHTS TO CHEMICAL TESTING WITH THE INOXILYZER 5000. HE SAID HE UNDERSTOOD AND REFUSED TO BLOW INTO THE MACHINE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO DO SO. 

HE WAS THEN BOOKED INTO ST. TAMMANY PARISH JAIL FOR 14:98J-OPERATING A WATERCRAFT WHILE INTOXICATED (JUVENILES ON BOARD) AND 34:851.5-RECKLESS OPERATION OF A WATERCRAFT. THERE WERE APPROPRIATE PFD'S ON BOARD FOR THE TWO ADULTS AND THE TWO JUVENILES (1 TYPE 2 CHILD PFD, 1 TYPE 3 CHILD PFD, 2 TYPE 3 PFD'S).
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