Cleveland Man Charged in Boating Death
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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officers have arrested and charged a man with vehicular homicide as a result of a boating fatality in August 2011. Deontae Davis, 33, of Cleveland, Tenn. was the driver of a boat that crashed into a barge mooring near the Bowater plant on the Hiwassee River. The impact killed passenger Misty Rymer Thompson, 32. Davis was not injured. At the time Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Officer Ben Davis said, "At the time of the accident it was daylight, wasn't dark and by any indications they shouldn't have had any problems seeing this object."Davis was arrested Monday following an indictment by a Bradley County Grand Jury. Davis was taken into custody by TWRA officers and is being held in the Bradley County Justice Center on a 5,000 bond. No court hearing date has been set.
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