JUN 05, 2019
A Florida charter boat captain has been arrested after drunkenly terrorizing his passengers for several hours, police said.

Mark Bailey, 36, was arrested Sunday for boating the “Double Marker” while intoxicated and resisting a law enforcement officer, the Sarasota Police Department said.

He took five passengers on the Sarasota Bay around 7 a.m. Saturday for a fishing trip, expected to last 12 hours.

“It would be nothing to pop a bullet in each one of us and dump our bodies overboard,” passenger Chris Giuffre Jr., 23, told Sarasota police of the captain’s threats.

“He also stated he has his buddies at the dock for us when we get back. He then proceeded to say he wanted to help to kill n-----s," Giuffre Jr. said. The passengers were white.

Shortly thereafter, Bailey allegedly shot a handgun several times from the upper deck at which point he was “drinking rum from the bottle" and frightening “the c--p” out of the passengers.

An arrest report provided to The News states Bailey is accused of refusing to return the passengers to shore.

Multiple passengers told the Sarasota Police Department that Bailey had consumed “an unknown number of beers while driving the boat.”

Giuffre Jr.'s father, Chris Giuffre, said Bailey “was more and more inebriated and high” whenever the passengers tried to talk to him. “We had no control and no way to get back. I believe he didn’t want to dock completely wasted, and was buying time.”

The boat arrived at the marina at 1 a.m., six hours behind schedule, according to NBC, and both Sarasota Police and the Coast Guard were already there.

Bailey allegedly used cocaine on the trip as well, and the arrest report confirms he had “watery bloodshot eyes and slurred speech at times ... [and] appeared unsteady on his feet."

The report states Bailey initially “refused” to take a breathalyzer or partake in “field sobriety exercises,” later agreeing to the former. Authorities did not confirm his blood alcohol level.

The Sarasota Police Department is only investigating the charge of boating while intoxicated, and told The News that the Coast Guard is handling the rest of the investigation.

Bailey also faces charges from last month for resisting an officer and charges of trespassing from September, according to records from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.




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Uh, Yep......and then taken over control of the vessel and returned to Port after calling in a MOB to the CG......

It's floriduh fun stuff happens everyday here .

Dead as dead can be.

now I know to bring a big bottle of rum to ply-befriend the skipper with next time I go on a charter boat fishing trip...

[and liquid valium to spike the rum if things really start getting out of hand]

And no on the shooting , a good haymaker to the jaw and some heavy leader line - hogtie him stuff a sock in his mouth and tell the first mate to head to port .

That is just wild

Not sure I would have shot him but would have used his own dock lines to tie his azz up and head back to the dock
After we went fishing

Hank

Sounds like a hell of a fishing trip.

Yes.

Only if his hog leg was pointed in my direction or someone else’s..

I like boatboy's solution.

Is he a member here?

Nah...doesn't sound silly enough.

Yea,in which case blow him away. Otherwise,as soon as I was close enough to lay hands on him,it would be the beginning the worst hangover of his life.

Hmmmmm, tough call ,now.

I doubt the situation would have ever escalated to anyone getting shot unless this Captain absolutely insisted on it if it would have been myself and a group of my friends on board.

I wouldn't have been held hostage until one o'clock in the morning either.

Any group of five men that in some form or another couldn't convince one drunk as to what was going to take place raises some questions to me.

I don't run with guys that are.....wussies...no thats to strong a term.....pussies..nah..... oh yeah....I don't run with guys that would be that passive in such a situation as to let one drunk rule over them.

I think the guests he had on board were a bunch of whimps and their version of the captains actions (which is all were hearing) might be a little skewed.

For some reason I have only read one version of this that even slightly mentioned the first mate that is always on board on these type of charters. I think the press has ran with what they could sensationalize the drama with the best and called it good.

His online reviews states that he sucks and his boat was often broke down, was the extended 6 hours due to a breakdown that he was to f'ed up to deal with?

Charters in his area are advertising $1250.00 for 8 hours, his being a 12 hour tour is also kinda odd.

He's obviously not the owner of that boat. The owner may want to go a round or 2 with that pos. He could get his license pulled.

What he did constitutes kidnapping.

His arming himself and making threats to shoot everyone and toss them overboard, and then randomly firing a gun to make his point is more than enough to place anyone on board in fear for their life.

So, yes. I'd kill him without a second thought.


Some of you need to put the bark on before you find yourself in a bad situation.

No it wasn't Toby! You guys are just mean!!

I think he does own the boat, best I could make off what I've read is there is/was two boats charting under the name "Double Nickel" the Double Nickel vessel was captained by two x-Alaskan fishermen named Nick and Will, they got great reviews.
The Double Marker is listed as a new introduction to the company around the same time they also extended their operation to Costa Rica, thats when the companies reviews took a big dive. Not sure if "Nick and Will" took the Double Nickel to Costa Rica with them or left it in Florida...
The only name currently attached to the website is this Mark Bailey dink....

My first thought was Fuddtardski or Middlefork Miner captaining a boat.

Only if in fear for my life would he be shot. Most likely he would have fell from the upper deck and hurt himself.

Do you think he might loose his Captain's rating?

Without firing the gun and and the threats, he just gets roughed up and tied up. The threats, combined with firing the gun, gets him a dirt nap. Especially if my family was on board.

Make him an Admiral....... But then he couldn't say 'Captain' when Captain Morgan says 'Captain' to him first...

went fishing with my buddy Davy and little mike onetime. Davy invited another guy mike or didn't know, he was drunk at 5am when he met us at the boat ramp and got drunker as the morning went on. he started fu-cking with little mike, and mikes a small guy about 5.2 maybe 110# other guy 6.2 or so, so after a little while of this and mike threatening to fillet him we put him off on a oil platform about 6 miles out and called the coast guard to go pick him up.

nothing worse than a mean drunk on a boat.

No shooting a captain at sea would be really hard to explain. Witnesses or not.

So they can do whatever they wish, up to and including threatening your life, holding you captive on a vessel you have no control of, and firing a deadly weapon while making those threats?

Not so hard to explain.

Things get even worse if they are in international waters beyond the state controlled waters...

Fish bat and keelhaul his drunk ass.

I suspect had he been confronted with a life or death choice he would have back down. If not another soul for Davey Jones Locker.

If the cap was that wasted how hard would it be for 5 men to play good cop, bad cop and then knock his ass out? Then get on the mayday channel and drop and wet a line while waiting for the coasties. Don't think shooting him was the answer.

The local cops and F&G deal with some of these matters rather sheepishly, the Coast Guard is a different story and they are doing the investigation. If it's found he is guilty of totally gross violations they will slap him pretty hard. A guy that has a drinking problem as bad as it appears this guy may lays down a history that will work against him. It's been stated over and over he was doing Coke, if he tests positive he's done with his Captains licenses on that alone.

It's mandatory he has insurance so his clients can chase some money for their issues in the case as well, God knows one of the will come outta this with PTSD if they follow a lawyers advice.

but did they catch any fish? is there at least a report as to how they did?

That would be my interpretation.

I don't have a lot of experience with charters. But I have been out on a 24 footer with six passengers a couple times out of New Port Or. It had no 1'st mate, just a Captain and our family fishing for rock bass.

That reminds me Denny,


Wanna go fishin' Saturday?

May day coast guard... our captain seems to have fallen overboard and we've lost visual contact.

I can't believe the Captain said how easy it would bee to murder his clients.

He's one sick jackass,drunk or not.

Yeah this, the important part. And what color were they using?

I think the difference is what you were doing is commonly referred to as "near shore" fishing, typically 5 miles or less off shore.

Off shore fishing often constitutes trolling, it takes two, captain never leaves the wheel, boats always moving and the first mate works the fishing gear, teasers, kite's and all the other stuff.

I do book this type of fishing charter, most the time out of Islamorada FL. in the Keys.
We troll all day for Sailfish and Marlin as our target species but reel in whatever takes the bait, sometimes a King Mackerel or Bull Dolphin may happen to hit.
But it takes two to work the boat, as clients, we pretty much sit back sippin' cocktails until there is a strike. If we are kite fishing, as clients we have to help keep the lines adjusted, 1st mate can't keep up with 4 kites in the air...

It was mentioned in other news stories that a 1st mate was on board this boat, I just chose this version because it contained a lot of controversial remarks the others didn't. More suitable to give the crowd here something to yarn about...

You cannot hold a CG 6-Pack or Master license with a DUI on your record. Operating a boat under the influence is basically the same thing.

Some years back a CG examining officer went to jail for issuing a license to his business partner's brother. Rainey or some version of the name. The brother had a DUI.

This little incident will go badly for the captain.

i would have but there something wrong with the story ! , no one took a picture of him! I am sure most passenger has a smart phone with them,

Actually, he sounds like a pretty good old boy. Don't know why all y'all would want to shoot him.

He would have swam home, simple as that. As a charter boat captain for many years myself, as well as running private sportfish yachts, I’ve only had to put one “guest” in the water, until he changed his attitude a little. He was a customer who had partied all night in South Beach, on who knows what, who then got squirrely and threatened to kill everyone on board for no apparent reason. My mate at the time was a former NFL linebacker, and between him and myself, we caught the guy up on the bow and tossed him overboard, and stood off til the Coast Guard showed up. Good times.

That being said, I know a few people who know this Capt. personally, and all said that he has “issues.” Based on the findings so far, he will lose his Capt’s license, and will never be permitted to work in the charter business again, in any capacity, including owning a boat for hire. The Coast Guard takes passenger safely extremely seriously, and will absolutely pull your ticket and ban you from engaging in any fishing operation, for an event like this. Too bad the customers had to find out about this guy’s issues like this.

Had a hunting client many years ago that came home taped into his sleeping bag.

Some charters disallow any electronic device offshore. They do not want you GPS marking the productive places and coming back without them.

Yep. I would have grabbed a buddy and we would toss his stupid ass over the side. Not putting up with [bleep] like that. Definitely not if i am paying to fish lol

Or. could be the Coast Guard or police took that sorta evidence to help investigate the case.
In this day and age, there is probably a video...

I'd love to Toby, but we'll be camping!

details reveal it all started when a 15 y.o passenger [Jason Rialmo Jr] grabbed a beer from the skippers pail
and the skipper objected telling him to put it back....the kid ignored him so the skipper followed him and grabbed him.

Mr. Lopeparo who hired the vessel for the group, then got into an argument and began yelling and screaming
at the skipper before other passengers also intervened.
Lopeparo said he had hired Bailey in the past and never had any issues.

Sounds like the skipper avoided a high seas mutiny by taking appropriate disciplinary action. ..

Passenger managed to call his family, 911 and coastguard from the vessel.

LE and coastguard couldn't be bothered going out to intercept a vessel with an intoxicated commercial skipper
firing a gun and issuing death threats...instead they waited on the shore till it docked some hrs later . LOL.

No, I would have tried to work in close and punch the holy dogchit out of him, then hope someone else on board knew how to run a fu-king boat.

The old saying is, never win an argument with a woman, they never forget.

EthelEdwards sure lives up ta that.

Quite an honor, though.

Outta the hundreds of fire members that've handed ol' Ethel her ass on so many occasions, I got top billing.

You just lie there and be calm, Captain. We'll get those treble hooks out of your face and eyeball when we get to shore.

"Any group of five men that in some form or another couldn't convince one drunk as to what was going to take place raises some questions to me."

Ron White: " I don't know how many of them (6 bouncers) it would have taken to lwhip my ass, but I know how many they were planning to use. That's a valuable piece of information!"

Yea,my plan too unless he aims a gun at me. It's not so much that wouldn't feel justified to shoot an idiot like that,as it is that I just wouldn't want to go through all the trouble afterward if not absolutely necessary.

I thought maybe you started a new career. 😜

Add to that, either you, or I, as credentialed Mariners, are required to take control of the vessel we are aboard, in situations like this. At exactly what point do you think this drunken/drugged fool would step aside and allow us to take control of the vessel peaceably?? I'm thinking the witness statements, plus the Toxicology reports would be more than enough to square things with the CG if the idiot had been dispatched. Perhaps I'm wrong, but the Tribunal would deal with the questions of wresting control of the vessel, a Florida court would deal with the shooting...…..and there IS Castle Doctrine in Floriduh…..

I agree with you Jeff. Also, Those that say they would have shot him, are just that: Puzzies... Plain and fu cking simple... If you can't handle a stupid drunk, what kind of a man are you?

Yep, some of these guys wanting to pull the gun and do him dirty, are more like women than men..... Sounds like a boatload of gay liberals on board to me too... Couldn't handle one drunk skipper. Come on now...

no he just ignored his customers requests first by taking them much further out to sea than wanted
then on the way back he starting screwing around a few miles offshore refusing to return to dock.

They got a 17 hr boat ride despite having only paid for much less, and then had the temerity to complain.



A skipper relatively harmlessly firing six shots of his 9mm in the air from the bridge is enough to frighten
some of the campfire alpha males....makes one wonder what kind of sanitized unadventurous deadfck snowflake
boring life they have led.

Anyone have a link to his rates? Ive always wanted to fish off the coast of Florida.

I think they were paying for a fishing trip, not a boat tour. lol...

There will be more to this story as the Captain and First Mates versions are heard and the CG sorts out the BS from the facts.

His charter service is screwed no matter, the stories of this event are going to come up forever if a guy is researching for a trip online.

The reviews on Trip Advisor tell me a lot, his reviews have been way worse than any I have ever seen for a charter service consistently for the past year.

Even if this story has been exaggerated and blown outta proportion this guy most likely needed put out of his misery anyway.

Yesterday the first positive review in a year was posted to Trip Advisor by a "one review wonder" if ya know what I mean, it indicates there is another vessel/captain/crew working under the group "Double Nickel Charters", they are grasping for straws, too little too late, name change required....


I decided some years back that it would be better for me to book a couple of these charters a year than to invest in a suitable boat for offshore fishing.

The care and feeding of such a vessel wasn't penciling out to fit as comfortably into my budget as I wanted it to.

Figuring out exactly which charter to book with was quite difficult, most all the reviews online read exactly alike.
Yeah they are all great, yeah they all catch fish, blah, blah, blah.

Asking around with locals didn't prove to help either, everybody knows of a charter and yeah their friend or a guy they know is the best.

I had the opportunity to go from marina to marina in the Florida Keys and check out their boats and talk with the Captains or Mates, which ever happened to be present. There's a seemingly endless number of marinas in the Keys each with these gorgeous sports fishing boats lined up like ducks in a row. It took days..

With a 125 miles of islands, all with marinas providing charter services the challenge was daunting, I had to come up with some way to eliminate some of the options involved.

First thing was to learn more about blue water sports fishing and where these fish were at and when, that 125 miles of of islands surrounded by beautiful water isn't all created equal.

Yeah, you can catch fish all up and down the Keys but the waters off Islamorada stood out to be the hotspot for what I was seeking, that helped a lot.

I booked a room at The Postcard Inn on Islamorada and went to work on figuring this out.

Oh the distractions, this was the land of big boy toys and man did they ever have them....




I noticed right away there were many empty slips every day, these guys were out fishing. Then there were the guys that seemed to be tied up at the docks more days than not, they obviously were not as popular to book with, they also offered discounted rates pretty quickly when speaking with them.

I could of jumped on any charter I wanted to in Key West for $900.00 for a full day, these Islamorada guys were ranging from a grand to $1300.00. The guys that were at the dock the most would drop to 900 without even asking for a discount, some seemed so desperate to book a client I probably could have negotiated them down to 750 but it was those empty slips that I started focusing on.

I started heading out in the evenings to catch these guys after they returned from fishing for the day.
Now I started noticing a difference, these were the pro's, they caught fish, consistently, every day.
They also didn't have time to BS, they were tired, they'd been working all day, all they wanted to do was to clean up their boats and go home. They also didn't have any openings, they'd be two weeks out or even three before they had an available slot for a full day.
Most were at the top of the price range too, and you could tell it'd be insulting to attempt to get a discounted trip.

This narrowed my search, I was down to a couple dozen boats to choose from.

I learned one thing that told me a lot, they run "fish flags" up their outriggers after a days fishing that indicate how many fish and what kinda fish were caught for the day...

I had my target boats, I no longer needed to talk to them, I just cruised the marinas after dinner every evening for about a week seeing what flags they were flying and counting numbers.

There were two categories, there were the guys that pounded up every day on mahi-mahi or Dolphin which ever term you like best and occasionally had a Sailfish flag up. Thats probably great when you have a 6 client load on the boat, you can catch a lot of Dolphin, everyone will be going home with more than a cooler full of meat and sore arms from fighting fish all day.
Then there were the boats that were catching Sailfish and Marlin and occasionally had a Dolphin flag on their outriggers. This was my interest, now I was down to a small handful of boats.



All these marinas have a Harbor Master, sorta a booking agent but really more of a night security guard, I was getting to know them, they'd been chasing me off the docks after hours for a week. lol

They also had some good information once I let them know which boats I was interested in, it was like, "oh yeah, that guy's been here 25 years" or "he's kinda new but he's been catching fish".

I wanted the old timer, I wanted a guy with the years in, from the thousand plus charters available in the Keys I was now down to three boats.

One guy never returned my calls, boom, easy check off the list, next guy seem great but was booked solid on full day trips for the next six weeks, third guy had one opening two weeks out, I booked it. 1300 bucks, gotta figure a 15 to 20% tip for the mate, it was going to be a $1600.00 day, it'd better be good, damn good!

If this guy would have showed up buzzed with a bucket of beer and bottle I'd of shot him right at the dock.

Our day came, just two of us, we missed a couple fish due to our lack of experience in setting a hook, (learning curve) our first mate was getting more and more pissed before we got it figured out but once it happened we nailed 5 Sails a few King Mackerel and had a hellov'a day. We got what we paid for, every penny of it.

Funny thing was as soon as we got on the Sailfish our Captain made a radio call to another boat and gave him our quads and the depth we were fishing, when he made the call, low and behold it was my first choice boat. I told him I'd called that guy before I called him but his next slot was six weeks out, he said the two of them had been fishing that area for the last 25 years, they always shared there info. They were in completely different marinas..

I still book with these guys once or twice a year, they have never let me down, we've always put bill fish in the boat.

Did they catch any fish???

Shoulda just shoved el capitain overboard if anyone got close enough.

Throw chum all around him.
Let the sharks get him.
Snag up whatever was left, get it on board.
Head back to shore and come up with a solid story on how
Drunk el capitan fell in ocean and got killed by sharks..

Everyone needs to unwind once in a while.

I'll be danged that is Toby!

Well if i was ccw i wouldve watched his blood fill the boat after i shot him to [bleep]. Guy had it comin....