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Trial Dates Set For Two Men Charged In Fatal Boating Accident

By on January 1, 2013
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TRIAL DATES HAVE BEEN SET FOR TWO MEN CHARGED IN THE DEATHS OF 4 PEOPLE IN A BOATING ACCIDENT THAT TOOK PLACE ON THE O’CONNELL SLOUGH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER JUST NORTH OF BURLINGTON ON MAY 19TH, 2012.

 

 

THE TRIALS OF 22 YEAR OLD DOUG METCALF AND 21 YEAR OLD JOE SCHIER, JUNIOR, ARE BOTH NOW SCHEDULED TO START ON MAY 7TH OF 2013. THE TWO MEN EACH FACE ONE COUNT OF OPERATING A MOTOR BOAT WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE… AND FOUR COUNTS EACH OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER.

BOTH MEN WERE ARRESTED LAST MONTH AND BOOKED INTO THE DES MOINES COUNTY JAIL, BUT THEN RELEASED WITHOUT POSTING BOND LATER IN DECEMBER UNDER A COURT SUPERVISION PLAN.