[Music] on August 12th 2023 FWC officers were conducting a routine resource inspection near the intra Coastal Waterway when they observed a vessel with an operator wearing a wet suit since this vessel was actively fishing the officers inspected their live well and coolers only to discover a lot of beer and alcohol how yall doing today just leave it in neutral for me going to do a quick life jacket check Offa Gilmore got five life dragonss one two three four all you're good yep all right you guys have any luck today got to take a look one yeah and then uh you pop the live well in the back hatches for me all right and then just the cooler you got what from there let me what the lobster yeah the lobster and then think I got I got but light's been in there for a few weeks all right let me get your license registration I don't have all right give me your registration oh man you got your M ID card yeah all right open up these back hatches for me real quick okay other hatch over there oh hey what about these hey what about these no no no stay right there what about those what about these beers those not yours either get on my boat sit in the bow pull all those out pull all the beers out of there and put them on my boat sit on my sit on my front Buton all right what's his name how we doing today we're going to start again okay whose beers are those I didn't I huh I was Dr you didn't drink any okay so I'm glad you said that so what's going to happen now is because you're under the age of 21 yeah because you're operating a vessel and because there's uh alcohol on board you're going to have what's called a PBT done to you all right if you blow it's a it's a portable breath test to see where you're at wait wait wait wait let me finish this and then we'll go on to the next thing okay so the reason I'm doing that okay is because you're under the age of 21 you can't consume any alcohol you can't be in possession of any alcohol okay and you obviously cannot operate a vessel above a 02 okay so it's kind of a mulligan in the sense that instead of running the Bui route I'm going to run this route okay still a court date but it's an infraction instead of a criminal okay so you're going to blow into this okay if it's above a 0.02 you'll get a citation that's a court date okay wait wait we got I know you have questions and they're running through your head because you're trying to lawyer this so hold on so and you'll have a you'll be an infraction with a court date an infraction okay with a court date if I run it the other way okay the other way is a criminal way is a Bui okay it's voting Under the Influence okay um I don't want to run it that way I can kind of see it okay and I have enough physical evidence to say that you were drinking okay so this is the lesser of the two evils okay go with your question so what like what would you have to do for infraction inra you just go to court probably send you to a a community service a community service and a uh what do you call it probably a nominal feed that's it okay okay so being under 21 that is basically what's called your Mulligan okay I I have that ability to run that instead of the criminal way of a Bui okay so it's my way of saying you're not you're you're not a bad kid you just did a dumb kid thing okay and that's that's one the second thing don't lie to me I'm going to find the answer out that's your cooler because the first thing you said was I have fish in there in my cooler from yesterday I listen to everything you say do you understand yeah okay so that's rule two don't lie to an officer there's no reason to because from that that just shows that you have the intent to try to deceive that's okay huh that's fine but that's your cooler up we're past the fish we're past the resource we're now on to the other situation you see what I'm saying Okay so let's not lie next time okay okay all right put your feet down real quick I'm going to come to you all you're going to do you're going to take a deep breath and blow all right there you go keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going good job woo 2 024 we going to do one more there you go keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going good job Z two four two two all right get on your boat all right and then we'll go from there has anybody on that boat not drank anybody on that boat not drank anybody you're not going to get in trouble if you have or not has anybody on that boat not drank the reason why I'm trying to see if I can give you the boat or not no everybody drank what that all right is the beer out of there I just put him on I thought put on the de on my deck put it on my deck all right is that it all right [Music] that's it that that was all that's in there okay do you have a license huh I you do have one what's your middle name try with a middle initial and then if not I'll try to get a social you got a picture of your ID uh I got other I got let me see are you want any probation or anything do you have anything from your last incident with alcohol you have anything from your last incident with alcohol you have nothing from the courts that told you you can and can't be around it or anything such I just want to make sure you have what okay so it's still pending that that incident okay I didn't hear what you said I'm sorry it's still long going okay and then what happened last last month last month yeah you think it was Lobster huh I said you think it was Lobster yeah it was lob oh it was Lobster okay yeah you got a line on that side uh we don't have anywh you have no lines okay yeah tie up on our side all right and I need you to get your parent here I need your parent here cuz I need to get him this vessel if not I take it okay you can tell it to them just like that too to make to to motivate them to get here and then make sure it's the parent because I'm going to ID him it's like this boy has driven his boat before it's cray cray good with this all right wrap it around make it tight um you I'll stay there start calling parents soon as you get a parent on the phone give it to me make sure it's a parent too I'm going to I'm going to confirm you lie to me then you go to jail for it first parent come on up do you want to talk to him on the phone no no no your dad has to come because I need to give him the boat to he's what towing a boat he's a towboat no he's Towing he's going to tow at home yeah so he's coming on land on water no no it's fine no on land irrelevant oh okay that's fine that's what I'm saying yeah okay yeah I just called my mom okay keep tring you're not leaving until you talk to a parent hello Mother how we doing it's okay um Officer Morgan with FWC okay I'm doing good uh what's your son's name so he was on a vessel uh all under the age of 21 under the age of 18 and uh they had let's see I would say about a dozen beers so yeah and then I'd say more than a dozen 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 beers so they have 26 beers um he because he's underage obviously he's uh what you call I got to make sure I let you know that he has you have contact with him um he has consumed alcohol uh he's not drunk but he has consumed it so yeah just had to let you know so uh we're at Phil Foster right now so you can come pick him up here or you can uh give him his blessings to go about however he needs to get homes it's on you okay not a problem not a problem here's your here's your phone back to him and then you can talk to him all right next I will you got somebody yeah all right who's this my dad dad hello Dad how you doing this is Officer Morgan with FWC all right what's your name has been is on a boat that uh has 27 beers on it they've all admitted to drinking she's not in she's not getting sighted or anything but uh yeah I have to let you guys know because obviously she has she has admitted that she's drink I don't know she's not drunk but she has drank oh yeah yeah you can talk to her I just need to know are you going to come pick her up or are you going to let her go on her own okay all right find out if find out what she's going he's going to do and let me know go ahead hello that's good though so man to drive home oh no she's not driving if she's driving a vehicle then you're coming to pick her up I'm not going to let her drive in the car she already admitted to drinking she can't have any alcohol in her so that I didn't know that was an option I didn't know that her vehicle was here so she's not driving she touches the steering wheel we'll have a different problem she can't drive home okay thank you she's going to come pick you up I didn't know you were driving you can't drive I'm not driving he said you were driving my car's not that's what he said so he he said he was driving I understand but either way he can't she can't drive she gets to your house and drive she can't that's what I'm trying to say my house is that's fine what happened with yours hello is this yes it is how you doing this is Officer Morgan with FWC hey how you doing I'm doing good I have your son with me um so he was on a vessel today and he had uh some liquor on board or alcohol on board uh in the form of 27 beers he wasn't operating so that's I guess the the highlight of that but uh he did admit the drinking uh we're at Phil Foster I just need to know what do you want to do with him in the sense are you going to come pick him up because if he's driving he can't drive and if you're okay with it he can go back with the uh with the other gentleman and his father who's coming to trailer it yeah sure I'll come down and take him out okay so that's fine we're at Phil Foster we'll be here for a minute all right I gave you a warning however for the misdemeanor charge of possession of alcohol put that in there for me okay so this is an infraction what you received understand that you're in possession actually all five of you are in possession of alcohol under the age of 21 all five of you could have got a Miss theor for today okay um I just gave him the warning cuz you're the captain of it so you got a warning for The Possession okay instead of the misdemeanor with it okay so that's what I came to out of all that there's only two beers that are open I mean two beers that not open okay so you just he was diving and I saw him so I went to go an inspection and open a cooler and there's beers said he wasn't at he he wasn't driving stupidly there's nothing that brought me to him thank God but was he drinking oh yeah yeah that he had a he okay so he blew a 024 and a 02 uh 22 I know about the suspended license and the reason for that this is probably not going to help that situation um what does that mean it it's probably not going to help that situation because this is another alcohol event I'm sorry to put it that way to you but that's what that meant when I said that I was trying to subtle with it okay I justes want to understand yeah I understand I don't know if you have the kid I do I have four of them about going to get me a nervous [ __ ] break I understand listen ma'am I don't want you listen I'm glad we can have this conversation it's okay relax I'm glad we can have this conversation without him hurt or anybody else hurt okay so again it's not the biggest thing in the world it is okay actually it's not the biggest thing in the world because he's alive you know you're never going to see that boat or Matthew again he's never going on a boat ever [Music] n