BOCA RATON — Two juveniles have turned themselves in to face charges in an investigation into the dumping of two barrels of trash from a boat into the ocean during Sunday’s, April 28, Boca Bash event, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Friday.
The FWC statement did not identify the juveniles or disclose their ages. It was not immediately clear what charges the juveniles would face.
FWC officers launched an investigation Monday, April 29, after receiving complaints in response to a video posted on social media that showed several juveniles on a boat traveling out of the Boca Inlet. The boat was heading away from the Boca Bash, an unsanctioned gathering of boaters, Jet-Skiers and kayakers that takes place on the final Sunday of each April on Lake Boca and attracts thousands of people.
The trash-dumping incident, captured by a drone, showed eight to 10 people in a three-engine fishing vessel named Halcyon leaving the Boca Raton Inlet in heaving waves. Two young men were then seen dumping two large buckets of garbage over the side of the boat, leaving a trail of multicolored cans, cups and bottles in their wake.