Orlando DUI Attorney Blog

Lake County Sheriff's Office has arrested a boater on a criminal charge of boating under the influence after he allegedly crashed his boat into a dock on Lake Harris. The defendant and driver of the boat, 51-year old Leesburg resident Michael Robert Smith, had to be rushed to the hospital for the treatment of injuries related to the crash. After the doctors released Smith from medical care, officers took him into custody on charges of BUI.

The defendant told police that he fell asleep while driving the boat before colliding with the private dock. Witnesses have also reported that a woman was present on the vessel at the time of the crash. A helicopter and marine patrol searched the area without luck. The authorities do not believe anyone to be in the water and rather the woman in question fled the scene on foot.