BOSTON (AP) - The lawyer for a Boston man charged with drunken boating says his client was swimming in the water and not on his boat when someone else turned it on and the propeller severed a 19-year-old woman's right arm.
Attorney Daniel O'Malley told The Boston Globe on Thursday that his client, 33-year-old Benjamin Urbelis, wasn't aboard the boat when the accident happened.
Urbelis, who is a lawyer specializing in drunken driving cases, has pleaded not guilty to charges including reckless and drunken boating causing a serious injury. He is free after posting $10,000 bail.
Officials said 13 people had gone on the trip aboard the "Naut Guilty" pleasure boat in Boston Harbor on May 30, including nine women ages 19 to 22 and four men in their 30s, including Urbelis.
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