'The last thing I remember is drinking a couple 4 Lokos,' says Florida man accused of stealing boat

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A 20-year-old man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly stole a boat from a marina that later crashed into Daytona Beach with no one aboard, the Daytona Beach Police Department said.

Investigators said Jonathan Race allegedly broke into Daytona Marina & Boat Works shortly before 4:45 a.m. Saturday, rummaged through two vessels, left belongings strewn across the boatyard and stole a 36-foot boat named Ethel Jeanne.

The boat later plowed into a beach at full-speed, but Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers said no one was aboard the vessel.

FWC officers said they found paperwork on the boat that indicated it was being stored at the marina for repairs, and a pair of tan pants containing a cellphone, a wallet and Race’s driver’s license, according to an arrest report.

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Police said they met up with Race at a Port Orange home and interviewed him on the porch, where he told investigators that the last thing he remembered was drinking a couple 4 Loko drinks at a 7-Eleven across from the marina.

Race told investigators that he had “blacked out” and was “rather drunk” and was “just making stupid decisions,” the report said.

He told investigators that the only thing he knows is that he woke up on the shore in Daytona Beach and walked home to Port Orange, officials said.

Detectives said they asked Race if he noticed that he wasn’t wearing any shorts, but he said he woke up wearing a pair of blue shorts that didn’t belong to him.

Race’s mother called investigators to ask them why her son was being arrested and as her son explained the story to her she asked him several times what was he thinking, the report said.

Race was booked into the Volusia County Jail on grand theft and burglary charges. He was being held in lieu of a combined $8,500 bond.

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