RedactedNarrative: On August 30, 2018 at approximately 2220 hrs I, Officer First Class of the Maryland Natural Resources Police, received a call from the Maryland Natural Resources Police Communication Center for a water rescue in the Magothy River. I activated my patrol vehicles emergency lights and sirens and began to head towards Magothy Marina where the Natural Resources Police keeps on of their patrol vessels. While I was enroute I spoke to my Sergeant, who advised me that he was coming from Sandy Point State Park by vessel with two other officers and that I should proceed by land. When I arrived on scene at 189 Inverness Rd Severna Park, MD I asked Emergency Medical Services personnel from Anne Arundel counties Squad 12 where the vessel was. The EMS personnel told me that the vessel was at the bottom of a set of stairs leading down to a community pier. They also told me that the operator had already been transported to Shock Trauma for his injuries and the passenger was in a nearby ambulance. I asked if he was awake and conscious and if I could talk to him. The EMS personnel told me that he was refusing medical attention and that I was welcome to speak to him.  Inside the ambulance I found the passenger of the vessel who was later identified positively by his driver's license. 
  
  After Subject2 finished filling out the forms that EMS needed him to I asked him for his contact information and any information that he had for the operator of the vessel. Subject2 told me that his friend, operator1, was operating the vessel. At this time Subject2 could not tell me what they struck, he thought that it might have been a pole or marker of some kind. Subject2 told me that he was going to contact Operator1's wife, and that he would go up to Shock Trauma with her. After speaking with Subject2 I went to look at Operator1's vessel, bearing MD registration MD 0989 DA, and document the damage. At Operator1's vessel I met with officers who had gotten a witness statement from subject who lived a couple of houses down and heard the accident and towed Operator1's disabled vessel to the community pier. In his statement, which is attached, he stated that, "Heard boat coming North up river at 35-40 mph. Went past my house saw boat collide with pier. Loud noise heard. Boats occupants quiet for at (least) 3-5 minutes then heard engine attempt to start and move. Went out on neighbor's boat. Towed vessel to community dock at end of Riverdale Rd. Not 1sttime boat has come up river at night speeding." 
  
  After reading through subject’s statement I asked OFC to look for whatever Operator1 struck with his vessel. While OFC was doing this I documented the damage to Operator1's vessel In the process of photographing all of the damage to Operator1's vessel I found a cup with Donnelly's Dockside Bar, Grill, and Marina. Despite the severity of the accident the cup still had a small amount of a liquid in it which due to my training knowledge and experience I knew to be the odor of an alcoholic beverage. As I was finishing up photographing Operator1's vessel OFC notified us that he had found what Operator1 had struck. 
  OFC was at the pier which had a Cabin Cruiser on a boat lift, which was raised out of the water. The cabin cruiser, bearing Maryland registration MD 5299 CA, was damaged as well as the lift and the pier which was just upstream from it. 
  When I called the phone number which Subject2 had provided for Operator1, the found cellphone began ringing and displayed my phone number. I returned to the dock and then proceeded to Shock Trauma to interview Operator1. Upon arriving at Shock Trauma I found Subject2, his daughter, Operator1's significant other and her friend waiting in the waiting room. Before interacting with them I went to Operator1. After introducing myself to Operator1 I told him why I was there and that I had to ask him some routine questions about the accident. I then read Operator1 his Miranda Rights.I read Operator1 his Miranda Rights at approximately 0015 hrs. Operator1 immediately refused to speak to me without his lawyer. I complied with his decision. 
  
  After leaving Operator1 I went back to the waiting room and asked Subject2 if he would fill out a Witness Statement. Subject2 said that he would. Subject2's witness statement is attached, but in it he said, "We had dinner at Deep Creek Restaurant, was coming home in dark. We were headed in the Magothy River. I saw pier and piling. Hollered but was too late we hit piling and pier. Tried waking operator up he was passed out on the floor. Tried to move boat but wouldn't move reverse or forward gear. I revived Operator1 then we tried to move again but boat wouldn't move. Then he had bad cut on his back. Someone towed us to pier where help was." After received the Witness statement from Subject2 I talked with him some more, during this time Subject2 told me that Operator1 was operating the vessel. Subject2 said, "I think Operator1 was looking at the radio, I was looking at my phone. When I looked up I saw the pier and yelled but it was already too late I think I grabbed the wheel and jerked it to the right Operator1 ended up on the back of the boat next to me" When I asked if Subject2 thought any time had gone by between striking the pier and attempting to move the boat he said, "It seemed like the ambulances got there in seconds, maybe I was knocked out too."Currently Operator1 has not been charged, he will be charged with: NR 8-738.2 (a)(1) Operation of a Vessel in a Reckless or Dangerous Manner, 08.18.01.05 B Negligent Operation of a Vessel, 08.18.01.04 A Failure to Obey Navigation Rules (Rules of the Road: Fail to Maintain Lookout), 08.18.01.04 B Unsafe Speed for Conditions. Pending Operator1's blood work I will possibly also be charging: NR 8-738 (a)(1) Operation While Under The Influence of Alcohol, NR 8-738 (a)(2) Operation While Impaired By Alcohol, NR 8-738 (a)(3) Operation While Impaired By Any Drug, Combinations of Drugs or Combinations of One or More Drugs and Alcohol, NR 8-712 (b).
   All events occurred in Anne Arundel County, MD.