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  ON AUGUST 6TH, 2022, I, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER (ICO), WAS WORKING OUT OF MY FULLY MARKED PATROL BOAT, WEARING MY DEPARTMENT ISSUED CLASS C BOATING UNIFORM, NEAR CUTRIGHT SRA ON MONROE RESERVOIR. AT OR ABOUT 7:33 P.M., I RECEIVED A TRANSMISSION FROM ICO CENTRAL DISPATCH STATING THAT THERE HAD BEEN A BOAT COLLISION NEAR THE FAIRFAX BOAT LAUNCH. I IMMEDIATELY ACTIVATED MY LIGHTS AND SIRENS AND STARTED IN THAT DIRECTION. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT I HAD TO REDUCE MY SPEED FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE RESPONSE BECAUSE OF REDUCED VISIBILITY FROM ISOLATED HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. 
  UPON ARRIVAL, AT APPROXIMATELY 7:49 P.M., I OBSERVED TWO STATIONARY PONTOON BOATS WITH A PASSERBY RUNABOUT STYLE BOAT ASSISTING ONE OF THEM. I COULD ALSO SEE THAT MONROE COUNTY FIRE AND EMS HAD ARRIVED AT THE BOAT LAUNCH. THE BOAT THAT WAS BEING ASSISTED DISPLAYED INDIANA BOAT REGISTRATION (BOAT #2) AND WAS BLUE AND TAN IN COLOR. I ASKED A MALE ON THE ASSISTING BOAT, IF EVERYONE WAS ACCOUNTED FOR AND IF THERE WAS ANYONE INJURED. HE STATED THAT ALL OCCUPANTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR, AND THAT HE AND HIS PASSENGERS, HAD HELPED TRANSPORT THE INJURED PASSENGERS TO SHORE WHERE THEY WERE BEING EVALUATED BY EMS. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT GOOD SAM INFORMED ME THAT THE FEMALE WHO WAS CURRENTLY OPERATING THE OTHER BOAT, A BLUE AND WHITE PONTOON COVERED IN FLAGS AND BEARING INDIANA BOAT REGISTRATION (BOAT #1), WAS NOT THE OPERATOR DURING THE COLLISION AND HAD SWITCHED PLACES WITH THE "MAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT" WHEN THEY STEERED THEIR BOAT AWAY FROM WITNESSES AFTER THE CRASH. GOOD SAM STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO LEAVE THE SCENE BY THE WAY THEY WERE ACTING AND KEEPING THEIR DISTANCE FROM THE ACCIDENT, INSTEAD, THEY USED THE COVER OF DISTANCE TO ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THE IDENTITY OF THE OPERATOR.
  BECAUSE WE WERE CLOSE TO THE DOCKS AT THE BOAT LAUNCH, I SUGGESTED WE MOVE THE BOATS OFF THE MAIN LAKE AND TO THE DOCKS FOR SAFETY. BOAT #2 HAD HEAVY DAMAGE TO THE REAR AND WAS DISABLED BECAUSE OF DAMAGE TO THE MOTOR AND STEERING CONSOLE. GOOD SAM OFFERED TO ASSIST IN TOWING IT TO THE DOCK WHILE I CHECKED ON THE OTHER BOAT THAT WAS ANCHORED APPROXIMATELY 30 YARDS AWAY. WHEN I MADE CONTACT WITH THE OCCUPANTS OF BOAT #1, A FEMALE WAS IN THE OPERATOR SEAT. I VERIFIED THAT THERE WERE NO INJURIES AND THAT THEIR BOAT WAS OPERATIONAL. I THEN ESCORTED THEM WITH MY BOAT TO THE DOCK. 
  ONCE THE BOATS WERE SECURED AT THE DOCK, I SPOKE WITH THE WITNESSES AGAIN WHO VERIFIED THAT THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHIRT, LATER IDENTIFIED AS OP1, WAS OPERATING BOAT #1 DURING THE COLLISION. I ASKED THE FEMALE FROM BOAT #1 TO JOIN ME ON SHORE. I ASKED HER TO GO OVER THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND DURING THE CRASH. SHE STATED THAT SHE WAS OPERATING THE BOAT AND SHE DIDN'T SEE BOAT #2 IN FRONT OF THEM BECAUSE THE SUN WAS IN HER EYES. I ASKED HER IF SHE WAS SURE SHE WAS THE OPERATOR BECAUSE MULTIPLE WITNESSES STATED THAT THEY SAW HER SWITCH PLACES WITH OP1 AFTER THE COLLISION. SHE AGAIN STATED THAT SHE WAS THE OPERATOR BUT SEEMED HESITANT WHEN PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION. I REMINDED HER THAT PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE CRASH, AND I NEEDED THE TRUTH. SHE PUT HER HEAD DOWN AND RELUCTANTLY SAID YES, HE WAS, BUT IT WAS HER IDEA TO SWITCH PLACES BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET INTO TROUBLE WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LOSE HIS CDL. I THEN FOLLOWED OP1 TO THE RESTROOM IN THE BOAT LAUNCH PARKING LOT AT THE SAME TIME ICO WAS ARRIVING ON SCENE. 
  I ASKED OP1 IF HE WOULD GO OVER THE INCIDENT WITH ME AND HE ALSO STATED THAT OP1 WAS THE OPERATOR. HE SAID, "I TOLD HER SHE WAS GONNA HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THE BOAT BECAUSE, TODAY WAS MY DAY TO HAVE FUN". HE SAID THAT THE SUN WAS IN HER EYES, AND SHE NOR HE SAW THE BOAT STOPPED AHEAD OF THEM. I ASKED HIM, IF OP1 WAS DRIVING, WHY ARE WITNESSES SAYING THAT YOU WERE THE OPERATOR, TO WHICH HE SAID, "THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION". DURING OUR CONVERSATION HE REMAINED ADAMANT THAT HE WAS NOT THE OPERATOR DURING THE CRASH AND STATED, HE ONLY OPERATED IT TO PULL IT OFF THE OTHER BOAT AFTER THE COLLISION. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT NEITHER WITNESS RECOLLECTION OF THE ACCIDENT, OR THE BOAT CRASH RECONSTRUCTION INDICATE THAT THE BOATS WERE EVER CONNECTED AFTER THE COLLISION. IT SHOULD ALSO BE NOTED THAT DURING OUR CONVERSATION, I COULD SMELL A STRONG ODOR OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMING FROM OP1'S PERSON, AND HIS EYES APPEARED TO BE VERY BLOODSHOT AND WATERY. 
  AFTER REAFFIRMING WITH OP1 AND THE MALE PASSENGER OF BOAT #1 WHO WAS ALSO RELUCTANT TO GIVE ME INFORMATION, THAT OP1 WAS THE OPERATOR, MYSELF AND ICO 2 ESCORTED OP1 TO THE PARKING LOT. I THEN INFORMED OP1 THAT ICO 2 WOULD BE TRANSPORTING HIM TO THE MONROE COUNTY JAIL FOR SFST'S SHOULD HE WISH TO DO SO AND A CERTIFIED BREATH TEST. AT THAT POINT, ICO 2 PLACED OP1 INTO HAND RESTRAINTS AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO THE JAIL. (SEE ICO 2'S SUPPLEMENT REPORT). 
  I RETURNED TO THE DOCK TO SPEAK WITH THOSE THAT REMAINED ON SCENE. I THANKED THE WITNESSES FOR THEIR HELP AND AFTER COLLECTING THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION, ADVISED THEM THEY COULD LEAVE. ALL OCCUPANTS OF BOAT #2 EXCEPT OP2, HAD GONE TO IU BLOOMINGTON HOSPITAL AS HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE WITH A POSSIBLE BROKEN JAW. 
  I MET WITH OP2 WHO WAS PACING AROUND ON THE DOCK. OP1 EXPLAINED THAT THEY HAD BEEN SITTING STATIONARY IN THE WATER FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUTES AND THAT HIS DAUGHTER'S, WERE IN THE WATER AT THE STARBOARD STERN AREA OF THE BOAT ON A TUBE. HIS WIFE, WAS ASSISTING WITH THE LADDER IN THE SAME AREA OF THE BOAT. OP1 SAID THAT HIMSELF, HIS SON, DAUGHTER, AND FRIENDS, WERE ALL INSIDE THE PASSENGER AREA OF THE BOAT. AT THE POINT THEY REALIZED A BOAT WAS TRAVELING TOWARD THEM, OP1 JUMPED ONTO THE STERN AREA OF HIS BOAT AND BEGAN WAVING HIS ARMS AND YELLING TO GET THE APPROACHING BOATS ATTENTION. HE STATED THAT HE WENT AIRBORNE DURING THE COLLISION AND ENDED UP IN THE WATER. THE BOAT NARROWLY MISSED TWO SUBJECTS PRIOR TO STRIKING HIS BOAT. 
  THE IMPACT KNOCKED VICTIM 1 FROM THE STERN INTO THE WATER AND SHE STATED THAT HER LIFE JACKET WAS RIPPED OFF HER BODY. TWO PASSENGERS JUMPED INTO THE WATER ON THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE BOAT JUST BEFORE IMPACT AND TWO PASSENGERS WERE JARRED AROUND ON BOARD WHERE THEY SUSTAINED INJURIES. OP1 ALSO NOTED THAT, THE OCCUPANTS OF BOAT #1 NEVER OFFERED TO ASSIST. INSTEAD, THEY KEPT THEIR DISTANCE EVEN WHEN HIS WIFE WHO WAS STRUGGLING IN THE WATER, WAS YELLING FOR SOMEONE TO THROW HER A LIFE JACKET. HE STATED HOW GRATEFUL HE WAS FOR THE HELP HE RECEIVED FROM GOOD SAM. AFTER GIVING HIS ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT, OP1 LEFT THE SCENE TO JOIN HIS FAMILY AT THE HOSPITAL. 
  I REMAINED ON SCENE UNTIL ASSISTANCE ARRIVED TO HELP ME REMOVE BOAT #2 FROM THE WATER AND PUT IT ON THE TRAILER THAT OP1 LEFT BEHIND. OP1'S SON WOULD LATER ARRIVE AND TRAILER BOAT #1. AFTER ALL INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS HAD LEFT THE SCENE, BOTH BOATS WERE SECURED IN THE LOCKED SERVICE AREA AT FAIRFAX SRA SO THAT A BOAT ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION COULD BE PERFORMED BY LT. (SEE LT. BOAT ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION). THE NEXT DAY, ICO DETECTIVE AND I MET WITH ALL INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS EXCEPT OP1 AND CONDUCTED IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS. (SEE DET. SUPPLEMENT REPORT). ALONG WITH PHOTOS OF INJURIES SUSTAINED BY HIS FAMILY, OP1 ALSO SENT ME PHOTOGRAPHS THAT HIS WIFE HAD TAKEN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT WHICH CLEARLY SHOW OP1 IN THE OPERATOR SEAT. 
  OP1 WAS BOOKED INTO MONROE COUNTY JAIL AND CHARGED WITH BWI WITH SERIOUS BODILY INJURY/IC 35-46-9-6, (LEVEL 6 FELONY) DUE TO HIS IMPAIRED OPERATION AND INJURIES SUSTAINED BY THE VICTIMS. I AM ALSO REQUESTING OP1 BE CHARGED.
  