A look at the Natural Resources Police blotter for the weekend shows a curious pattern of activity on the C&D Canal in Cecil County. This looks like a pretty formidable haul for one weekend on the canal:

Cecil County – On June 25, 2010 at 7 p.m., NRP charged Douglas Thomas Dolphin, age 26 from Elkton, Md., with operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol, operating a vessel while impaired by alcohol and operating a vessel while impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol.  The charges originated when Dolphin’s vessel almost struck a marked patrol vessel on the C & D Canal Basin in Chesapeake City.

Cecil County – On June 26, 2010 at 6:25 p.m., NRP charged Eric August Mitana, age 22 from Gibbstown, NJ, with negligent operation of a vessel, operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol, operating a vessel while impaired by alcohol and operating a vessel while impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol. Mitana was stopped on the C & D Canal in Chesapeake City for not displaying proper registration numbers on his vessel.

Cecil County – On June 26, 2010 at 7:20 p.m., NRP charged Michael Frederick O’Conner, age 30 from Chesapeake City, Md., with operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol, operating a vessel while impaired by alcohol and operating a vessel while impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol. O’Conner was stopped on the C & D Canal in Chesapeake City when he was observed operating a power vessel in an unsafe manner.

Cecil County – On June 25, 2010 at 5 p.m., NRP charged Andrew Philip Garrison with operating an unregistered vessel, operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol, operating a vessel while impaired by alcohol and operating a vessel while impaired by a combination of drugs and alcohol. Garrison was stopped in the C & D Canal in Chesapeake City for operating a vessel without displaying required registration numbers.