{"id":11063,"date":"2016-08-08T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:18:27","slug":"officers-rescue-injured-boater-arrest-three-for-impairment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/08\/08\/officers-rescue-injured-boater-arrest-three-for-impairment\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers Rescue Injured Boater; Arrest Three for Impairment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maryland<\/a>Maryland Natural Resources Police<\/a> officers rescued an injured boater, arrested an impaired boater and driver, and won convictions in two fisheries\u00a0cases over the past week.<\/p>\n

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Quick action by an officer responding to a boating accident in Ocean City on Saturday helped save a man from bleeding to death.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived at the scene in Isle of Wight Bay at about 4 p.m., seven people were in the water around a rental pontoon boat that had run aground. One man was bleeding profusely from a gash on his arm created by the boat\u2019s propeller and another passenger was hanging onto a nearby moving boat.<\/p>\n

As rescuers gathered up those in the water, an officer saw the injured man struggling and recognized the wound as a severed artery. He applied a Combat Application Tourniquet to stanch the flow until the victim could be taken ashore. Ocean City first responders took him from Bahia Marina to Atlantic General Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

Seth Murray Wilson, 21, of Millsboro, Del., the operator of the boat, was arrested after he failed field sobriety tests. He refused a breathalyzer test. A court date has not been set.<\/p>\n

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A Pennsylvania man was arrested for drunk driving Sunday after an officer on patrol in Garrett County noticed erratic behavior.<\/p>\n

John Joseph Wilson, 26, of North Huntingdon, stopped for an extended period at a flashing red light on Route 219 in McHenry, signaled a left turn and then turned right, drove on a raised portion of the road separating turn lanes and crossed over the yellow center line.<\/p>\n

Wilson failed field sobriety tests and refused to take a breathalyzer test. He was charged with two counts of impaired operation and one count of failing to drive right of the center line.<\/p>\n

A court date has not been set. If found guilty of all charges, Wilson could be fined as much as $2,500.<\/p>\n

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Also on Sunday, an officer on patrol on Deep Creek Lake arrested a Pennsylvania man and charged him with three counts of impaired boating and one count of negligent operation.<\/p>\n

Kirk John Bittel, 36, of Pittsburgh, was stopped near the Glendale Bridge after an officer saw a passenger hanging off the stern of a moving boat, trying to grab a loose rope.<\/p>\n

Bittel failed field sobriety tests and registered a blood alcohol content of .10 on the breathalyzer test; the legal limit is .08.<\/p>\n

He is scheduled to appear in Garrett County District Court on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n

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A St. Mary\u2019s County man had his commercial oyster license revoked after he was convicted last Thursday of harvesting oysters from polluted waters.<\/p>\n

Andrew Phillip Nelson, 20, of Hollywood, was charged in May<\/a> with catching oysters from St. Inigoes Creek off the St. Mary\u2019s River, an area closed to harvesting by the Maryland Department of the Environment.<\/p>\n

Officers on saturation patrol saw Nelson hand tonging in the headwaters of the creek and intercepted him as he returned to shore. They seized 11 bushels of oysters.<\/p>\n

In addition to revoking Nelson\u2019s commercial license, a St. Mary\u2019s County District Court judge sentenced Nelson to three year\u2019s unsupervised probation.<\/p>\n

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A Baltimore County waterman was convicted last Wednesday of seven charges in connection with illegal yellow perch fishing in the Gunpowder River.<\/p>\n

John James Messenger, 40 of Middle River, was cited in March<\/a> after officers found illegal fyke nets in Foster Branch and Joppatown Canal. In addition, they found that Messenger was violating the terms of a department\u00a0pilot program to tag and track commercial catches.<\/p>\n

A Harford County District Court judge found Messenger guilty of two counts of having a net set more than one-third of the width of a waterway, one count of failing to have his identification number on his vessel, two counts of not marking his nets, one count of setting his nets in a restricted area and one count of failing to comply with the terms of the Fishing Activity and Catch Tracking System<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Messenger was fined $850.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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