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Man, 27, charged with drunken boating
By Maki Becker
An Orchard Park boater was in the Chautauqua County Jail this morning after he tried to ram his vessel into a sheriff's marine patrol boat on Chautauqua Lake Thursday night, sheriff's officials said.
At about 8:30 p.m., the sheriff's office received a complaint about a fishing boat doing "close circles around fishing boats" at an unsafe speed in the Bays of Dewittsville.
The sheriff's Marine Patorl Unit went onto the water to look for the suspect and his boat. About 9 p.m., the sheriff's boat spotted the boat and turned on its emergency lights, but the boat sped off, then turned around and headed toward the side of the patrol boat. The marine unit took evasive action to avoid a collision, officials said.
The suspect then turned off his navigation lights and sped off.
After a search of the area, sheriff's deputies located the boat and the boater, whom they learned had allegedly used night vision goggles to help him elude law enforcement, officials said.
Thomas J. Bakowski, 27, of Squire Drive, Orchard Park was charged with two counts of reckless operation of a vessel, no stern lights, no navigational lights, boating while intoxicated, refusal to submit to a chemical test, and two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/orchard-park/article542667.ece
Man, 27, charged with drunken boating
By Maki Becker
An Orchard Park boater was in the Chautauqua County Jail this morning after he tried to ram his vessel into a sheriff's marine patrol boat on Chautauqua Lake Thursday night, sheriff's officials said.
At about 8:30 p.m., the sheriff's office received a complaint about a fishing boat doing "close circles around fishing boats" at an unsafe speed in the Bays of Dewittsville.
The sheriff's Marine Patorl Unit went onto the water to look for the suspect and his boat. About 9 p.m., the sheriff's boat spotted the boat and turned on its emergency lights, but the boat sped off, then turned around and headed toward the side of the patrol boat. The marine unit took evasive action to avoid a collision, officials said.
The suspect then turned off his navigation lights and sped off.
After a search of the area, sheriff's deputies located the boat and the boater, whom they learned had allegedly used night vision goggles to help him elude law enforcement, officials said.
Thomas J. Bakowski, 27, of Squire Drive, Orchard Park was charged with two counts of reckless operation of a vessel, no stern lights, no navigational lights, boating while intoxicated, refusal to submit to a chemical test, and two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/orchard-park/article542667.ece
