Skip to comments.
St. Tammany reserve deputy arrested after drunkenly crashing sheriff's department boat
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^
| 4/13/15
| Ken Daley
Posted on 04/13/2015 1:08:59 PM PDT by BBell
A St. Tammany Sheriff's Office reserve deputy was stripped of his commission and arrested Saturday night (April 11) after authorities said he drunkenly stole a department patrol boat and crashed it into a piling outside a riverfront bar-restaurant in Madisonville.
Danny Eckhart was not acting in any official capacity when he boarded a patrol boat docked on the Tchefuncte River and drove it downriver to the popular T Rivers Bar and Grill, St. Tammany sheriff's spokesman Capt. George Bonnett said Sunday. As Eckhart piloted the boat, Bonnett said he caused damage of an unknown amount to the craft when he ran it into a piling near the bar's docking area just before midnight. No one was injured in the crash, Bonnett said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: bui; deputy; donutwatch; lacombe; sheriff; sttammany; tchefuncte
If your going to get a B.U.I you might as well do it like a Boss.
1
posted on
04/13/2015 1:09:00 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: BBell
You’s in a heap’o trouble now bo-ah.
2
posted on
04/13/2015 1:12:13 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
“dammit bobby, i tell you what”
3
posted on
04/13/2015 1:14:14 PM PDT
by
Augustinian monk
("Beware the Ides of March!")
To: Augustinian monk
4
posted on
04/13/2015 1:15:18 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: BBell
"You picked the WRONG parish to haul ass through BOY!"
5
posted on
04/13/2015 1:16:30 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BBell
“Hold my Beer. Watch this.”
6
posted on
04/13/2015 1:17:40 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: BBell
Eckhart's blood alcohol content at the time of his arrest was not disclosed. That high, huh?
7
posted on
04/13/2015 1:18:40 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: BBell
So a Louisiana reserve sheriff gets drunk, crashes a boat, and he gets fired. An Oklahoma reserve sheriff mistakes his pistol for his taser, shoots and kills a suspect, and he gets off scott free. Is there something wrong with this picture?
To: DoodleDawg
I don’t know who the genius was who decided to give a gun,taser, and shield to a 73 year old guy.
9
posted on
04/13/2015 1:30:03 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: BBell
Nice place he was headin to.
10
posted on
04/13/2015 1:46:31 PM PDT
by
BBell
To: BBell
I used to live on a tidal creek in South Jersey. Every summer the drunks crashed their boats on the weekends. There were three Philly cops who bought a 32 foot Jersey boat and the first time they took it out they got drunk and coming back to the marina crashed it on the bulk head. The marina owner and me pulled the boat into a slip and pulled out it with a travel lift. These three cops were complete idiots when it came to boating.
11
posted on
04/13/2015 2:04:44 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
To: DoodleDawg
Nope, they arrested him on 2nd degree manslaughter in OK.
12
posted on
04/13/2015 2:13:25 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Cruz for steam in 2016)
To: eastforker
Nope, they arrested him on 2nd degree manslaughter in OK. The police department classified it as "excusable homicide" and he still has his badge. So the odds of him being convicted are pretty slim.
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson