The state charges are filed after federal charges were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
A local prosecutor on Friday filed a total of 63 felony criminal charges against three employees over a July 2018 tourist boat sinking on a Missouri lake that killed 17 people. The charges were filed in Stone County against the captain, the general manager and the manager on duty the day the Ride the Ducks attraction sank on Table Rock Lake near the tourist mecca of Branson. The charges against captain Kenneth Scott McKee, of Verona, general manager Curtis Lanham, of Galena, and manager on duty Charles Baltzell, of Kirbyville, came seven months after a federal judge dismissed charges filed by federal prosecutors, concluding that they did not have jurisdiction.
