[Music] on September 5th 2023 several FWC officers were on vessel Patrol in brard 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 fathers by the way guys I put a lot of effort into correcting this video's lighting and approving its audio so go easy on me how you guys doing today awesome where are you guys coming from from uh Peanut Island Peanut Island okay how long are you out there for probably like 2 hours 3 hours like that all right uh do you have is this your boat my boat all right do you have a cleat or something we can tie up on okay okay let me get this uh rope right off here oh you got it is it on is it on the cleat uh no I have one back here on the CLE but this one's from the front CLE you have a rope take through that through that loop I got you you got that yeah just 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 cuz 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 the my license and registration you got you have picture on your phone all right thanks Dad just send it to this number all right love you byebye by way my dad was on this boat before us okay uh what's your name okay got uh who 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 leav an empty alcohol cans cuz 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 typ 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 I want to see the that black PL plastic bag I want to see what's in there yeah I got B okay and those okay uh 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 and what about all this 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 he got off of it from going to bokeh 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' 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 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 um 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 some nasty things no one's got a shot I completely understand all right yeah I'm sorry about that I had 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 it's happened to me too you know so I won't say that's never happened to me um you got to keep an eye on that fire extinguisher too it's starting to get rusted it's still looks okay it's still good though right I just got this fire exting it's 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 he found the um 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 a breath of light okay and see if he anything to drink all right so do you give us consent to do that because if 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 thew can I meet you guys at the inlet yeah but I wanted to fill you in on the options now because we're we're starting to move forward so obviously Christ so th those are the two options either we get the consent for the breathalizer or we don't and he gets he gets cited for refusal Jesus Christ can I talk to him I'd like 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 the wherever he his house is wherever I guess your home uh we're we're taking him to there because he's got a boat um full of uh underage people we no we're 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 are we able to do the breathalyzer or are we going to do the refusal let's thinks let's I 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 G to cause a big [ __ ] so we we are doing this as a courtesy call we don't have to call you for this we're we're calling this as okay so I'm just 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 he's not drinking just get some kind of like citation right so what what did what exactly did you leave on the boat what kind of alcohol uh some Corona cans okay I don't I don't I remember I don't really drink that much my friends were drinking we were on that boat last night last night I've been 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 uh freaking V Selzer water thingies I don't know she left any of those on there okay um so who 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 my girlfriend Melle okay and who else you said some friends Michelle Mike and Carlos okay and this is and this is last night this is last night yeah we we went to the Slightly Stupid concert and we were hanging out the boat the coastal while okay and he call me by surprise today when he showed up say oh I'm G take the boat out like I said I was working on my boat I didn't I didn't even think about it I didn't think about it all right and um Can 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 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 breathalizer or we're going to do the refusal it's 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 this came out of nowhere um but just 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 is is going to be entirely up to you I would go with the refusal okay okay that's 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 uh fellow officers and then I'll give you a call back shortly okay we're we're on to the inlet wher 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 they 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 um so we're are we and route to the docks he he's on mute arean route to the do he 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 where would we um 14th Street 14th Street yeah be minutes okay so are you there yes sir okay um so are you able to pick up all the 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 you want pick 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 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 breathalizer if not you can do the refusal each of them have 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 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 theat and you're the operator and you've had you've had priors with this too right yes so where 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 I won't lie it's it the way the way everything is going down is 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 the the alcohol was left from other people there was some left I'm sure but like I said there's there's cold there's cold containers there's there's multiple things going on there's cold there's cold containers uh you were you didn't tell me the right alcohol that they had listen we'll just again it's neither here or 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 [Music] sample