INDIANAPOLIS -- The boat driver pulling drowning victim University of Indianapolis senior Dai-Jon Parker was sentenced this week to several days in jail, a year probation, a 60-day driver’s license suspension and a substance abuse evaluation, court records show.
Jasmin Jackson was charged with operating a motorboat while intoxicated and operating a boat with a controlled substance following the August 2015 death of Parker.
Parker died after tubing behind the boat without a life jacket.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed the operating while intoxicated charge.
Court records show Jasmin was to serve time in the county jail from March 22 to March 24.
While investigating the drowning at Morse Reservoir, Department of Natural Resources officers found Jackson had alcohol and drugs in her system, specifically THC, the chemical found in marijuana.
“I asked Jackson if she knew whether or not Parker was a good swimmer and she told me that she did not really
know,” read the DNR report. “Jackson added she didn't know why he would have gotten in the water without a life jacket on if he couldn't swim and that they all had been in and out of the water that day.”
Jackson was not charged with causing Parker’s death.
The DNR report said an officer smelled alcohol on Jackson’s breath and she failed two out of the four field sobriety tests.
“She told me that she wasn’t sure how much she had personally consumed, but guessed no more than five or six beers,” read the DNR report.
A portable breath test showed Jackson’s blood alcohol at 0.065 percent, and a blood draw taken 1 hour, 45 minutes later at the jail resulted in a 0.03 percent.
Jackson has not provided a comment to RTV6.
