RedactedNarrative: On 1/24/17 , at approximately 1910hrs, vessel fl0261ph was traveling north in the icw in the area of the siesta key slow speed on full plane.  The vessel was being operated in an erratic manner.  At some point the vessels port side struck red channel marker 68 in the icw.  
  
  On 1/25/17 i, officer with the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission, received a call from sarasota county marine deputies that they had just stopped a boat  and believed the operator was impaired and had just struck a channel marker with his vessel.   
  
  The marine deputies advised they were bringing the vessel and the operator back to siesta key marina.  I arrived on scene at 1935hrs.  Upon arrival deputies informed me that they were in the siesta key slow speed zone about to head up phillippi creek when they observed a vessel heading north bound in the icw at a high rate of speed.  They observed the vessel make a hard turn to starboard, pause and then make a hard turn to port.  
  
  The deputies then observed as the vessel lay still for approximately 30secs to 1 minute.  The vessel then proceeded to get back up on plane and continue to head north in the icw.  It was at this  time the deputies initiated a stop for the violation of the slow speed zone.    Upon stopping the vessel, the deputies observed a large amount of damage to the port side of the vessel and noticed signs of impairment.  On the way back to the marina the deputies noticed damage to channel marker 68 which they had noted approx 10 mins earlier had no prior damage.
  
  At the marina the operator was given standardized field sobriety tasks by the sarasota sheriffs office to determine ifthe operator was impaired beyond normal faculties.  The operator was subsequently arrested for operating vessel while impaired and transported to the sarasota county jail.