Sheriff charges Coos Bay man with 'boat-and-run'
By KVAL.com StaffCOOS BAY, Ore. -- The sheriff arrested a 56-year-old Coos Bay man on suspicion of causing the "boat-and-run" accident that damaged the sheriff's boat house, trapping a sheriff's office boat inside. Sometime during the weekend of March 21, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office boat house at Ten Mile Lake in Lakeside, Ore., sustained damaged when an unknown boat hit the house. The damage left the boat house unusable and trapped one of the sheriff’s office boats inside. Sheriff's deputies again searched the lake for the boat responsible on Saturday, March 28. Deputies located a boat in racks at the Ten Mile Marina storage building on Ten Mile Creek that had sustained heavy damage to bow. Investigators now believe the accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 20. Deputies arrested Gary Alford, 56, of Coos Bay on suspicion of hit-and-run with a boat and reckless operation of a boat.
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