Photo: Jesse Paul Peglar
A man arrested when officers responded to a report of a boat going in circles at Quarry Marina pled guilty to charges against him – including a fourth offense of boating while intoxicated — during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court last Thursday.
Baxter County deputies, enforcement officers with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rangers all responded to the scene.
In the 911 call reporting the late May incident, the boat was said to be striking the marina, as well as other boats.
When a deputy reached the craft, 46-year-old Jesse Paul Peglar of Mountain Home was found passed out. When he was awakened, he first fell flat on his face on the deck of the boat. He was alleged to have started yelling at the officers, telling them to “stop shining lights on me, you are going to wake up the neighbors.”
At one point, Peglar said the officers had “no right to be in my house.”
Peglar was arrested and taken to the Baxter County Detention Center where it was reported he refused to take a test to determine how much alcohol was in his system.
Circuit Judge Kathleen Bell, sitting in for Judge Gordon Webb, sentenced Peglar to six years in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with a judicial transfer to one of the Community Correction Centers in the state.
It was announced in court Peglar is enrolled in a rehab program. He will be allowed to remain in the program, until bed space opens in one of the Community Correction Centers. He will then be transferred to that facility.
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