Boston, Massachusetts, Woman Faces Felony Drunken Boating Charges After July Crash In NH

CONCORD, NH — A woman from Boston, Massachusetts, was arrested on Thursday after a multi-month investigation into a July boat crash in Pelham that led to two people being injured and taken to the hospital.

On July 24, Pelham police received a 911 call about a crash between a personal watercraft and a boat on Long Pond. Police and fire and rescue teams arrived and gave first aid to two people injured in the crash who were on the watercraft. One was taken to a hospital in Massachusetts, while another was medflighted to a Massachusetts hospital.

Four people in the boat hit by the watercraft were not seriously injured.

New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol was requested to investigate the incident with police and later learned Ivonne Pena, 31, of Boston, MA, was driving the watercraft while another woman was a passenger.

“The PWC was operating at a high rate of speed and struck a boat that was floating, with the engine off, with four occupants on board,” Amber Lagace, a public information officer for state police, said. “Three of the passengers were able to jump off the boat just prior to being struck.”

During the course of the investigation, police accused Pena of being intoxicated. On Friday, she was arrested by police in Boston on reckless conduct and aggravated boating while intoxicated charges, both felonies. Pena was brought to New Hampshire and arraigned on Friday.

State police noted that Dracut, MA, Salem, and Hudson police also assisted with the investigation.

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