Marks v. State

DOWNEY, Judge.

At 7:30 on a June morning two customs officers, together with three deputized Hollywood police officers, were cruising in the Atlantic Ocean one and one-half miles from shore in an unmarked police department vessel. They observed appellants aboard a Sport Fisherman vessel at anchor motioning the officers to approach the anchored boat. As the officers drew near, appellant Hill-stead asked where the nearest fuel could be found and Officer Caperton responded that it was probably at Pier 66 in Port Everglades. However, Caperton said he would call the Coast Guard. That suggestion…