Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe PACE, Fla., March 30 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said an investigator used Google Earth to find a suspect in the illegal dumping of a 1-ton boat. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office said the boat, dumped in an undeveloped Pace subdivision, was missing its vehicle identification number and registration when it was found Feb. 23, the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal reported Tuesday. Advertisement Marc Ward, a sheriff's office spokesman, said Deputy Gregory Barnes logged onto Google Earth for the investigation. "He used Google Earth to look around the surrounding area," Ward said. "He was looking for anyone who had that boat at the time the satellite image was taken." The boat was identified as the property of Dwight Everett Foster, 57, who was charged with littering more than 500 pounds of waste, a felony. "Dwight stated it was his decision to dump the boat," the arrest report states. "Dwight stated that it was ... stupid and he knew he shouldn't have done it."
