At 1:14 a.m. July 1, Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) received a report of a possible intoxicated boater operating a small white dinghy in the area of Loch Haven on the South River in Anne Arundel County. NRP located the vessel and operator, Thomas Daniel Haywood, 40 of Harness Creek.
Officers transferred Haywood into their patrol vessel and transported him to shore for field sobriety tests after determining that he was under the influence of alcohol.
Once on shore, Haywood jumped from the vessel onto the pier and into the water. Haywood attempted to elude officers by swimming under docked vessels, boatlifts and docks until he was pulled from the water by NRP.
He was transported to Anne Arundel County Police Department for processing and charged with operating a motor vessel while under the influence of alcohol, operating a motor vessel while impaired by alcohol, negligent operation, reckless operation, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, failure to obey a lawful order of a police officer, alcohol endangerment, operating a vessel between the hours of sunset and sunrise without proper navigation lights, insufficient life jacket, and failure to have a sound producing device.
Haywood was taken before a District Court Commissioner and held on $3,500 bond pending a bail review.