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Posted: July 03 2010,8:01 am |
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A checkpoint on Lake Havasu recently resulted in eight arrests and 59 warnings, according to a press release.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Kingman regional office reported the operating under the influence (OUI) checkpoint during the final weekend in June resulted in 215 watercraft contacts in a four-hour period, the release stated.
Six watercraft operators were over the .08 blood-alcohol limit, one was for an OUI drugs, and one arrest was for “impaired to the slightest,” the release stated.
An estimated 73 percent of the watercrafts that were contacted were in compliance, but the two most common violations were not having a fire extinguisher and not having a portable rescue device.
Other warnings included insufficient lifejackets, expired registration and a child under 12 without a lifejacket, the release stated.
Of the 215 watercrafts, 28 percent of the operators had consumed alcohol, the release stated.
The game and fish department, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Lake Havasu Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management conducted the checkpoint.
“I’d still like to see higher compliance rates,” stated Velma Holt, west sector supervisor for the Game and Fish Kingman office, in the press release. “While we arrested eight individuals, 28 percent of the boats we stopped had an operator who had consumed some alcohol. That means more than one-in-four boats we stopped had an operator who had been drinking.”
1 in 4 for last week-end  ...likely to be much higher this week-end with all the "amateurs" out there... 
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