Cops: Guide was drunk when Ohio woman drowned
Posted at: 09/28/2012 10:19 AM
| Updated at: 09/28/2012 1:17 PM
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INDIAN LAKE, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say a whitewater rafting guide was drunk when a 53-year-old Ohio woman fell out of his raft and drowned during an outing on an Adirondack river.
State police say Friday that 37-year-old Rory Fay of North Creek was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Tamara Blake of Columbus while rafting Thursday morning on the Indian River in Hamilton County, 80 miles northwest of Albany.
Police say Blake, Fay and 53-year-old Richard Clar of Columbus were ejected when the raft hit some rapids. Fay and Clar made it to shore. Blake's body was found 5 miles downstream in the Hudson River.
Troopers say Fay is a licensed guide employed by the Hudson River Rafting Co.
He's being held in the county jail on $50,000 bail. A message left with his lawyer wasn't immediately returned.
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