Underage Boating Incident: Alcohol Possession and Breathalyzer Refusal

The operator faced charges for underage alcohol possession and refusal to take a breathalyzer test.

### Underage Boating Incident: Alcohol Possession and Breathalyzer Refusal
* 🚤 On September 5th, 2023, FWC officers conducted a vessel patrol in Broward County and observed **numerous open and unopened alcohol containers** on a stopped vessel.
* 📱 The operator claimed the alcohol belonged to his father, but when asked for identification, he struggled to provide a valid license due to a **dead phone battery**.
* 👮 During the safety inspection, the officers discovered that **no one on board was over 21**, which raised concerns about the **open alcohol containers**.
* ⚠ The operator was informed that **operating a boat with open alcohol is illegal**, regardless of who had the alcohol before him, and he was advised to **gather the required safety equipment**.
* 📞 After contacting his father for help, it was revealed that the father had **left the alcohol on the boat**, leading to further scrutiny from the officers.
* 🚫 The operator was ultimately faced with the choice of **consenting to a breathalyzer test** or facing a citation for refusal, which would also require **community service**.
* 💔 Despite the operator's attempts to deflect responsibility, he was charged with **possession of alcohol by a person under 21** and **refusal to provide a breath sample**.
* ⚖ The incident highlights the serious implications of **underage drinking and boating safety regulations**, emphasizing the **need for compliance to prevent tragic outcomes**.

[Music] On September 5th, 2023, several FWC officers were on vessel patrol in Broward County. While conducting a safety inspection on a vessel they had just stopped, they observed numerous open and unopened alcohol containers in the vessel. When asked about this, the operator claimed they were his father's. By the way, guys, I put a lot of effort into correcting this video's lighting and improving its audio, so go easy on me. How you guys doing today? Awesome. Where are you guys coming from? From Peanut Island. Peanut Island, okay. How long are you out there for? Probably like 2 hours, 3 hours, like that. Alright, do you have... Is this your boat? My boat, alright. Do you have a cleat or something we can tie up on? Okay, okay. Let me get this rope right off here. Oh, you got it. Is it on? Is it on the cleat? No, I have one back here on the cleat, but this one's from the front cleat. You have a rope? Take through that, through that.

loop. I got you, you got that. Yeah, just loop that right through the end. There you go, perfect. Thanks, man, for sure. Let I got slack there. Yeah, good. All right, sir, can I get your license and registration, please? Yeah, sure. I only have a picture of it, though. Does that work? Yeah, you get. Where is it? On your phone? Yeah, my phone's dead. You think you can look it up? I don't. No, I got it. You have it. My dad or your dad. Who are you calling? My dad. Four. Yeah, 'cause I need a picture of my license. I have it on my phone. My phone's dead. Unless you have a charger for my phone. I don't have a charger. Hey, Dad. Yeah, uh, we're on the way home right now. We just got pulled over. I need. My phone's dead right now. I need a picture of my license. My voting license. I didn't do anything. We didn't do anything. Did I do anything wrong, sir? What did I do anything wrong? No, we're just doing a safety inspection. Yeah, of course. Yeah, he said they're just doing a

safety inspection. He wants my license and registration. You got, you have a picture on your phone. All right, thanks, Dad. Just send it to this number. All right, love you, bye-bye. By the way, my dad was on this boat before us. Okay, uh, what's your name? Okay, got, uh, who on the boat here is over 21? Who on the boats here is over 21? Um, nobody. Okay, so that's what I was saying. My dad was on the boat before us. So from him, no, I swear to God, man, if you want, I could call him right now, and I, I highly doubt your dad was on this boat, leaving empty alcohol cans, 'cause you said, especially how long you said you're out for, P over all right. So, uh, what I'm going to do is I need you to hand a PFD to everyone on board. I need to see your type four throwable and fire extinguisher. I got my fire. No, we didn't get Fs yet. His dead in thing. I didn't get an eye on it back.

m I have my right here. Can we move this? I want to see what's in here. Yeah, of course, man. I got you. Thank you. As I said, my dad was on the boat before me. If y'all want to do anything Friday, I'm going to have to wait for my dad to get here to do that. How old are you? That's what my dad told me. I'm 16, but my dad told me if I ever get pulled over by any cops and they want to do to me, then I wait for my daddy. All right, uh, take what's it. Can you pull that up? Yeah, man. I got you. Anything else you want me to move? Yeah, I want to see that black plastic bag. I want to see what's in there. Yeah, I got B. Okay, and those beers. What are those beers? Empty or those full? Those are full, but from my dad. I'm not drinking. And what about all these containers right here? In here is from my dad, except for the chips.

everything's from your dad. Everything's from my dad. Okay, your dad left his boat like this. Mhm, everything like this. We literally, he got off of it from going to Boca, and then we came back, and we took the boat out. Has anyone on this vessel had anything to drink? None of us. Same thing. So we're going to have to get you over here. Okay, yeah, I got you. All right, let's go. All right, get a. I don't consent to any tests or nothing like that, though, until my dad's here. Where's your dad at? My dad, he's at his house right now. Where was he at? Where was he at earlier? Where was he at earlier? Is at Boa. Okay, so I guess he took another boat. No, he took this boat. All right, then y'all just came back out in. Yeah, he literally went home, and then, oh, y live on the, you guys live on the water. I don't live in the water. I keep my boat behind my friend's house, but like right when he got home, he

called me and said he was home. Y back to Dad's house got boat dad's. Did I do anything besides my dad stuff on the boat? Did I do anything wrong? If you're operating the boat, you're... It doesn't matter if your dad, your aunt, uncle, whatever took the boat. You're operating this boat with open alcohol containers. You're not... Nobody's 21. My dad... They're consumed. There's some that aren't consumed. There's half bottles. There's a lot of it on there. So it doesn't... Yeah, it doesn't matter at that point who had it before you. I got you. Yes, it's very... It's very strong. Is anyone over 18? Who's over 18 here? All of us. Okay, all of you guys. Joh, my dad's number or anything like that? Uh, we... We'll address that in a second. We'll see. And you got... You got to get your safety equipment squared away too, man. That's... That's not uh... It's not cool. It's not acceptable. Especially you've seen seem

like you know exactly what you're doing on a boat. You've been doing it for a long time. You know what you need, right? You know, so you got to make sure you get that stuff away, especially if you're going to be by yourself and doing that stuff. I'm sure you know what you're doing, but you got to have that stuff. Stuff happens really fast. We've seen some nasty things. No one's got a shot. I completely understand. All right, yeah, I'm sorry about that. I had the throwable. I've always had a throw a last time y'all pull me over. Had a throw a, but when I went to the Keys, just flew. Yeah, that's happened to me too, you know, so I won't say that's never happened to me. You got to keep an eye on that fire extinguisher too. It's starting to get rusted. It still looks okay. It's still good though, right? I just got this fire exting. It's not. It's not.

terrible, but you're probably going to have to replace it soon. Um, it's still though, right? Yeah, the expiration would be fine, but all that rust around it, that's not going to be serviceable soon, and you're going to leave that up to the discretion of an officer, and it might not fly for the next guy. Yeah, for sure. Year ago or something like that, $400 ticket for having an expired fire extinguisher. Uh, so you, it must have been, if it was $400, it must have been multiple things. Yeah, it was that, and it was the life jacket, same exact thing. I will short one life jacket again. Got to start learning from these mistakes, man. Yeah, for real. Yes, I mean, I have like recently, like ever since the bo bash incident, like what happened in bab bash. Bab bash. I had [ __ ] I made a stupid decision, just a bunch of people out, no bring a bunch of alcohol and stuff, same thing, same exact, but I mean, except for that time, everybody El I told them not to, we're just having

combo it's okay. Oh, I thought [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] because they know that they should be P. They know they're doing the wrong thing, looking out for the police. They're like, Oh [ __ ] we some friends, you guys. [Music] are uh, I don't know, but yeah uh, we're waiting on some uh, some info. We're waiting on some information. I'm not sure I can find out. Here's what's going on um. We want to talk to your dad and we want to let him know what's going on. Yeah, you put put number. Yeah, yeah, it's exactly what I'm going to ask you for. So, I'm going to I'm going to fill him in and give him um, your options. This way you can go from there, okay? You if I talk to him first, yeah. What are you going to say? You're just going to just let him pass him. That's fine. You can give the introduction. Yeah, I'm just let him know what happened. Hello, I can put it on.

speaker for me on the officer's phone right now. Put it on speaker for me. Yeah, I got you. So, he found the alcohol things you left on the boat earlier. I was, he was just like, I just wanted to call. He wanted me to call you to confirm that it was yours and blah blah blah. No, this, give me the phone. I forgot to clean that [__] up. You didn't give me time to clean anything up before you left, sir. This is Officer Boet from Florida Fish and Wildlife. Oh, my bad, dude. Me time, I was working on the boats and I forgot. Okay, so I, that's, it's, that's here, there. Okay, it's definitely not acceptable because he's got all this alcohol in the boat. All right, so, so what, what, what we're doing is we want to give him a breath of light, okay, and see if he had anything to drink. All right, so do you give us consent to do that? Because if he refuses, if he refuses, it's also a citation requiring community service. Oh, [__]. I mean, where you guys at?

uh we just passed Hillsboro Inlet on the can. I meet you guys at the inlet. Yeah, but I wanted to fill you in on the options now because we're starting to move forward. So obviously Christ, so those are the two options. Either we get the consent for the breathalyzer or we don't, and he gets cited for refusal. Jesus Christ, can I talk to him? I'd like to get an answer from you first. So if he refuses right now, I can go pick him up. Well, either way, we're taking him to wherever he came from. Yeah, we're not going to let him operate the boat. Yeah, where he came from, from the do so where. Yeah, wherever he, his house is, wherever I guess your home. Uh, we're taking him to there because he's got a boat, um, full of uh, underage people. We no, we're on the ICW right now, so we're going to the house right, right now. I need to figure out um, what steps.

we're doing to take going forward. Are we able to do the breathalyzer, or are we going to do the refusal? Let's think. I don't want to make any decision with his mom. I mean, I'm pretty sure what she's gonna say, but I want to give her the option. We're divorced, and I don't want to, you know, it's going to cause a big [ __ ]. So, we are doing this as a courtesy call. We don't have to call you for this. We're calling this as, okay, so I'm just filling you in on that. Oh Jesus, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do because if he's drinking, it's gonna go on his record. If he's not drinking, just get some kind of like citation, right? So, what exactly did you leave on the boat? What kind of alcohol? Some Corona cans. Okay, I don't remember. I don't really drink that much. My friends were

drinking. We were on that boat last night. Last night, I've been working on my boat today. Okay, so what they left on there. So when the LA, when's the last time you on this boat, likes to drink those freaking V Selzer water thingies. I don't know, she left any of those on there. Okay, um, so who was on the boat? That's if you don't drink that much. Who's on the boat that drank this much? Oh, my girlfriend Melle. Okay, and who else? You said some friends, Michelle, Mike, and Carlos. Okay, and this is last night. This is last night, yeah. We went to the Slightly Stupid concert, and we were hanging out on the boat the coastal while. Okay, and he called me by surprise today when he showed up, said, Oh, I'm G, take the boat out. Like I said, I was working on my boat. I didn't even think about it. I didn't think about it. All right, and um, can you think of

any other type of alcohol that would be on this boat? No, I can't. Okay, all right, so uh, we got to get it again. This is a courtesy. This is strictly courtesy. We got to get consent if you'd like to go forward with this breathalyzer, or we're going to do the refusal. It's one or the other. I kind of would rather do the refusal just because, you know, I don't feel like without me being there, you know what I'm saying? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what to do right now. I understand. I understand. I understand. I understand. I get it that this came out of nowhere, um, but just the mere possession alone is already a criminal charge, okay? So we make that clear. So obviously, um, moving forward, whatever decision from there is going to be entirely up to you. I would go with the refusal. Okay, okay, that's what I needed to know. Um, do you want me to go pick them off? What do you want me to do? Um, stand

by on that. I'm gonna. I'm going to go talk with my fellow officers, and then I'll give you a call back shortly, okay? We're on to the inlet where you need me to go, okay? Right as of right now, we are in route to where this boat was docked, where they came out of, from the house by Gard, okay? It's a long ride. I'm saying I want to put you guys out. I'll go drive it myself, okay? Hold on one second, okay? Yes, sir. So, we're in route to the docks. He's on mute. Are in route to the do. He wants to know if he can come pick up the boat. Absolutely. Can you pick all these girls up too? Okay. And then where would we? 14th Street. 14th Street? Yeah, be minutes. Okay. So, are you there? Yes, sir. Okay. So, are you able to pick up all the girls that are on the boat as well? I can take. I can pick everyone up. Okay. All

Right, do you want me to drive the boat back with them on the boat, or do you want to pick them up? Say that again. Do you want me to go over there and pick the boat up and drive everybody back home? Or so we are going to, uh, you know the 14th Street boat ramp? Yes, sir. Okay, so that's where we're going to go if you want to meet us there. All right, I'll be right there. All right, thank you, sir. Bye. Sorry, Mane off. All right, so you heard your dad saying for the refusal. Um, obviously, I still have to ask you. Okay, yeah. Um, going to lay out the options. If you don't think you've had anything to drink, then obviously you wouldn't mind doing the breathalyzer. If not, you can do the refusal. Each of them has penalties. Okay, so if you do refuse, it's a citation, and there's, uh, 50 hours of community service involved with that as well. Okay, um, we are going to charge you for the possession of alcohol already. Okay.

because that's that that part is is unacceptable uh just sit tight for now and I'm going to get char some [ __ ] my dad did it it doesn't matter if you're your dad couldn't name the alcohol that was on the boat okay as and I caught what you did as soon as you're on the phone you let your dad hey I I tried to tell them that you forgot the alcohol you know this is this is what we do you did you you said it's all right we it's again that's either here or there I just I know what you were trying to do okay what do you mean by that by Say by giving them a heads up like hey this is what I said happened um we all know that's not what happened okay just don't don't don't insult our intelligence all right so fact tell the truth right now Tru and the fact that you you would even ride around on a boat like that just alcohol sitting like that and I'm sure you know better that you

can't just have everything out like that. No, man, I didn't expect and try like it's and E. Even if it still doesn't matter, mere fact that you have all the alcohol and we can smell everything on that and you're the operator and you've had priors with this too, right? Yes. So where do you think your credibility is? Understand, you know what I'm saying? There is none, you know what I mean? And it may seem like we're coming down harsh, but it's for a reason. People die over this stuff. I'm serious. So we're doing this for a reason. So we are going to go with those and then we'll get you with docs right here and we'll get you going, all right? Um, do they have another rope? I'm going to try to grab a rope. I won't lie. It's the way everything is going down is completely unacceptable. I mean, the amount of alcohol there and I and I'll

be I'll be frank. I'm not buying the alcohol that was left from other people. There was some left, I'm sure, but like I said, there's cold containers. There's multiple things going on. There's cold containers. You were... You didn't tell me the right alcohol that they had. Listen, we'll just... Again, it's neither here nor there, and it's irrelevant at that point. The fact that there's that much alcohol while he's operating, it's not fun. It's not what we want to do. It's not... No, I'm saying, but even for me, from our part, it's not what we want to do. But at the time of making this video, the operator was charged with possession of alcohol by a person under the age of 21 and refusal to provide a breath sample.

He Blames Everything on Dad When Police Catch Him

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FWC Officers Conduct Safety Inspection on Vessel

FWC officers in Broward County stopped a vessel for a safety inspection and found multiple alcohol containers.

The operator claimed the alcohol was his father's and called him for a picture of his license.

The officers requested a PFD for everyone on board, as well as a fire extinguisher and a throwable device, while questioning the operator about the alcohol containers.

The conversation revolves around a group operating a boat with open alcohol containers, raising legal and safety concerns.

The individuals on the boat claim to be following their father's actions, but the operator is still held responsible.

The officer emphasizes the importance of safety equipment and offers guidance on maintaining it, while also addressing the issue of underage drinking.

The speaker discusses the need to replace an expired fire extinguisher and the consequences of having one, including a $400 ticket.

They reflect on past mistakes, including having an expired life jacket and making poor decisions during a party.

The conversation shifts to an officer wanting to talk to the speaker's dad about the situation and offering a breathalyzer test, with the potential for a citation and community service if the speaker refuses.

A person is being questioned about a boat with underage people and alcohol on board.

The options are to conduct a breathalyzer test or cite the person for refusal.

The individual's girlfriend and friends were drinking on the boat the night before, and there is concern about the potential legal consequences.

The officer is offering a breathalyzer test or the option to refuse, explaining that possession of alcohol is already a criminal charge.

The person involved is uncertain and prefers to refuse the test.

The officer coordinates to pick up the individuals from the boat and explains the penalties for refusing the breathalyzer, including a citation and community service.

The operator was criticized for having a large amount of alcohol on the boat and for not being truthful about its source.

The authorities pointed out the operator's prior offenses and emphasized the seriousness of the situation, as people can die from such negligence.

The operator was ultimately charged with possession of alcohol by a person under the age of 21 and refusal to provide a breath sample.