RedactedNarrative: On this date and time, I Marine Enforcement Officer was on patrol at Navajo Lake State Park.  I received a phone call from MEO of a possible hit and run at Navajo Lake Marina involving a white “Baja” type boat.  
  
  I observed a vessel matching that description being loaded on a trailer at the main boat ramp with several people standing around.  I talked to the owner of Navajo Lake Marina.  He stated that the boat on the trailer had struck one of the rental pontoon boats (Vessel B) at the marina while it was leaving a slip.  He was concerned that the operator of the vessel was trying to flee the area but once he talked with him, the operator was very cooperative. 
  
   I next talked with the owner & operator of vessel A.  Subject1 state that he was leaving his overnight slip in the rental basin when his shifter stuck.  As he struggled to get it out of reverse, vessel A went forward and struck the moored pontoon boat next to him.  He then yelled to the folks on the marina that he would come back and take care of the damage.  Subject1 told me that his was not injured in this collision.
  
  Vessel A had black transfer on the starboard forward section, damage to the rub rail on the starboard rear, and a crack in the top cap on the starboard rear.  Subject1 indicated that this was all new damage.  The damage was photographed.  Subject1 provided me with his insurance and vessel ownership papers.  Vessel A displayed AZ numbers, but had been recently purchased and registered in New Mexico.
  
  The next day I observed the damage to Vessel B in its slip at Navajo Dam Marina.  The cowling was damaged and the latch to the cowling was broken.  This is the only damage that marina staff found on vessel B.  I also observed white transfer marks on the end of the slip where vessel B was moored.  This damage was photographed.
  
  Based on the operators report and the damage I observed, vessel A did strike vessel B.  Vessel A was traveling forward and struck the cowling of vessel B on his starboard front side and continued forward striking the end of the dock with the starboard rear of his vessel.
  
  I gave Subject1 a verbal warning for not being able to control his vessel within the marina.
            
  End of report.
  