San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials have arrested a sergeant in the department on suspicion of operating a boat while intoxicated after an off-duty collision on the Colorado River left a Los Angeles County man dead, authorities said.
The fatal crash took place about 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, on the river just south of the Needles Bridge in Needles, according to the sheriff’s department.
“A 22-foot Cheetah deck boat … was traveling downriver when it impacted an 18-foot Sanger vessel that was adrift on the river,” sheriff’s officials said in a written statement…