RedactedNarrative: On June 10 ,2018 at approximately 13:00pm a 911 call was placed to Cheatham. He advised a boat was crashed laying on its starboard side on the bank below Cheatham Dam. He advised there was one man up on the bank sitting under a tree and that the boat was leaking fuel into the river.  
  
  During this time, subject advised he spoke with the operator which stated he had been drinking and did not want any Law enforcement assistance and that a friend of his was going to come and pick him up. He stated he was not injured and no one else was aboard.  A TWRA boat and a Clarksville PD boat arrived at the location at ~1:30pm.  The operator of the KY 0775 VJ had left the accident site and evidence at the scene showed he had walked up a steep dirt bank and off into the woods. 
  
  (Subject’s granddaughter took a cell phone picture of the man sitting under the tree at 12:58pm)  TWRA officers and Cheatham county Sheriffs officers searched the rural wooded area for the operator.  He was not found at that time. A few hours later the vessel was up righted and pulled off the bank.  It was towed down river to LOCK B boat ramp and seized as evidence by TWRA Sgt.. 
  
  At approximately 7:45pm that evening two witness anchored in Bartons''s creek on the county line call Officer with TWRA and advised that there was a single white older male in the water on the river bank at the original accident site.  TWRA responded back down to the crash site to locate the man.  TWRA officers broadcasted on loud speaker for him to come out of the woods for his own safety, however no contact was made.  The following day Sgt. was able to find a telephone number for subject who answered and he was advised that TWRA had his boat in impound.  Subject was advised he could retrieve his vessel later in the week and that he had charges pending due to his actions on June 10th.
  