RedactedNarrative: On August 15, 2016 at 10:00 pm Officer responded to the Palmer River, Barrington for a kayaker who was overdue. The reporting party stated that her husband went out kayaking with their dog after they had an argument earlier in the evening and he had not returned. 
  
  Subject indicated her husband had been drinking before he left. Area search teams began searching the Palmer River. At 11:35 pm the husband was located wet holding a PFD walking on shore. A BUI investigation was initiated and he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test. He was charged with BUI and BUI refusal.
  
  Officer investigation of the accident leads to either he voluntarily left the kayak to rescue the dog who jumped out of the kayak or the possibility that he capsized the kayak and fell overboard.
  