By rssfeeds-admin According to Indiana Conservation Officers, Zacharia Sweet was riding on a tube with a 6-year-old juvenile that was being pulled behind a boat near Allen’s Creek.
Sweet and the child fell from the tube, witnesses said, with Sweet never resurfacing. Sweet wasn’t wearing a life jacket, but the child was. The child was able to make it safely back to the boat.
Sweet’s body was recovered in 23 feet of water nearly two hours after he fell from the tube.
The driver of the boat — a 37-year-old man from Avon — was arrested for boating while intoxicated, a misdemeanor charge.
Indiana Conservation Officers reminded the public to always wear a life jacket when on or near a body of water and to always have a designated operator while boating.
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