RedactedNarrative: On aprial 09,2021 conservation officer was contacted by mississippi dept. Of wildlife, fisheries and parks radio room at approximately 21:29 pm about a boating accident on the tallahatchie river near the paducah wells boat ramp. Upon arrival at 21:55 pm tallahatchie sheriff depratment officers had just retrieved the subjects out of the river. 
  
  Officer was advised that victim was deceased. Also in the vessel was subject1 and the operator of the vessel. Operator stated that a storm had come up and they came to the boatramp to wait it out. When the storm passed they were going to drain the water out of their boat by going down the river and pulling the plug. 
  
  Operator was wearing his lifejacket and the others were sitting on theirs because the boat was muddy. When he throttled the boat the front of the vessel went under the water and took on more water. They got out of the vessel and were standing in shallow water. 
  
  When they started to the bank the water got deeper. The lifejackets they were sitting on had floated off.  The victim was holding on to the gas tank and slipped off and under the water a few times. Subject1 grabbed victim and they went to a log jam where subject1 held victim and himself . Operator swam to the bank and went to the truck to get a phone to call for help. After being retrieved from the river the coroner, there appeared to be methamphetamine in the drowning victim’s pocket. There was no autopsy performed but the toxscreen indicated that there was methamphetamine in the victim’s system. The death was ruled at a accidental fresh water drowning by the coroner.