Fort Lauderdale,FL : Boater charged with BUI manslaughter in Intracoastal crash that killed 2 on March, Saturday 17th 2018

hat began as a late-night boating party along the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale left two people dead and their friend charged with killing them while drunk.

It was 11:35 p.m. on a Saturday in May when Max Irvine steered a 31-foot Angler Marine twin-engine catamaran south toward his destination, Bokamper’s Sports Bar & Grill, which is on rhe Intracoastal near East Oakland Park Boulevard.

Irvine and his passenger, Amanda Macke, of Fort Lauderdale, never made it to the bar because the Angler crashed into a 22-foot Twin Vee boat operated by Andre Neves.

A witness told the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission that Irvine was speeding before the crash on May 20, according to court documents.

Neves, 37, of Pompano Beach, and his passenger Juliani Da Costa Maria, 29, of Boca Raton, both later died. Two other passengers in Neves’ boat were hospitalized with minor injuries.

The Angler was moving at about 34 mph in a posted 25 mph manatee no-wake zone before the collision. Irvine could not stop to avoid the collision, the arrest report said.

Irvine, 36, of Deerfield Beach, was arrested Wednesday. The arrest report described Irvine’s blood-alcohol content as 0.15 when measured four hours after the crash, falling to 0.13 when taken about 90 minutes later. Both measurements were higher than the legal level of 0.08.

Before the crash, Irvine and Macke had stopped at a waterfront bar where security video showed them drinking an alcoholic beverage, investigators said. An empty beer can and empty beer bottle were later found in his boat.

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Boater charged with BUI manslaughter in Intracoastal crash that killed 2