CLEARWATER, Fla. (WWSB) – Jeff Knight, the man who was operating the boat that crashed into the Clearwater Ferry Sunday night, has a checkered history with law enforcement, court records show.
According to the Pinellas County Court, he was issued a vessel citation in 2017 for careless operation of a vessel, a misdemeanor, for allowing his 14-year-old stepson to operate a boat.
Knight also was charged in a 2019 boating accident, which was later dismissed. In 2012, he was sued after a man died getting off his boat, but that suit was dismissed…