Authorities say the owner of The Boatyard near Antioch took a boat renter’s phone and threw it into the water and then later made false claims on social media about the boat renters.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit was called around 6 p.m. Saturday to The Boatyard, located at 42125 North 4th Avenue in unincorporated Antioch.
The caller, Kristen Wooden, 36, of Antioch, reported one of her rental boats struck the Route 12 railroad bridge earlier in the day and she wanted to make a report.
Marine unit deputies were responding to the scene when Wooden called 911 again to report the renters of the boat were damaging her property, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.
The woman refused to tell dispatchers what the renters were doing to damage her property.
Deputies arrived around 6:20 p.m. and saw Wooden standing at the edge of her pier engaged in a verbal altercation with the occupants of the boat, which was not yet docked.
Wooden said she was concerned the operator was not able to dock the boat so marine unit deputies offered to give Wooden a ride to board her rental boat so she could dock it herself, which the business owner agreed to do, Covelli said.
Wooden docked the boat and then allegedly took a cell phone from the hands of one of the boat’s occupants, who was recording the situation.
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