LAKE HAVASU CITY – On Monday, Sept. 16, at approximately 10:10 p.m., several 911 calls were placed about a boat crash near Site 5 on Lake Havasu. Deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Division of Boating Safety, along with officers from the Lake Havasu City Police Department, the Lake Havasu City Fire Department, River Medical Ambulances, and a trooper from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, responded to the scene.
According to a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office press release, a 2008 Cobra 26-foot boat with eight people on board was traveling southeast on Lake Havasu, approaching Site 5, when it struck a properly marked under water peninsula that protrudes off of the Arizona shoreline. The collision caused several persons to be ejected into the water; however all eight people were able to make it to shore.
A man and a woman suffered significant injuries, and were transported to a local hospital in stable condition. The operator, identified as Levi Brown, 33 of Murrieta, Calif., was arrested on scene for two counts of Operating Under the Influence, Reckless Operation of a Watercraft, and seven counts of Reckless Endangerment.
