On Saturday, July 6, 2019 Sergeant Ryan Harvester of Florida's Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of boating under the influence while piloting his 24' Yamaha vessel on Citrus County's Crystal River. The arresting agency is a new one here on Real World Police: Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Division of Law Enforcement. FWCCDLE doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but their arrests are just as real and freedom-restraining as any other agency's. And when Fish & Wildlife Lieutenant Matthew C. Griffis spotted Harvester speeding through a river manatee slow speed zone and subsequently detected signs of impairment on the 35 year old... the sergeant was destined for jail.
Harvester was issued a written warning for the speed zone violation, and was administered of a battery of "seated field sobriety tests" - a marine variant of the SFSTs you are more used to seeing. After observing numerous clues of impairment, Griffin placed Harvester under arrest and brought the sergeant to the Citrus County Jail, where he refused an evidentiary breathalyzer test and was held for the mandatory 8-hours before being released to his wife - a corporal at Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office.
Harvester faces two charges, one charge of BUI and a separate charge of refusal to submit to a breath test. On August 6, 2019 Harvester's attorney filed a rather misleading motion to dismiss the BUI case, which was strongly opposed by Assistant State Attorney Michael Kotsifakis. A hearing on the motion to dismiss is scheduled for September 20, 2019.
All of the records from Harvester's arrest as well as all court records to date (including the motion to dismiss and opposition) will be available on Patreon as soon as Harvester's personal information is redacted. I hope that will be finished within the next hour.
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