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A 42-year-old Olympia man whose boat capsized on the Nisqually River Thursday with a woman, her two young children and another man on board has been held on suspicion of three counts of homicide by watercraft and one count of boating under the ascendency of alcohol.

Thurston County sheriff’s deputies take recovered the body of a 5-year-old boy. They are still exploring the river for the boy’s 9-year-old brother and another married man.

Vincent Farler drove his flat-bottom boat to where Erin McCartney and her children, Cameron and Sean, and her friend, Bryan Pierce, were splashing and having a picnic on the banks of the Nisqually River, east of Lacey, on Thursday and offered them a ride, according to court charging documents filed today. The four climbed into the boat and headed with Farler to a campsite, where the adults started drinking, the Thurston County Superior Court papers before-mentioned.

At some point, they all climbed back into the boat. Farler started driving in tight circles and the boat capsized. All five were thrown into the water upstream from the Interstate 5 bridge toward the south of Fort Lewis. Nobody was wearing a life jacket and in that place were nay personal flotation devices on board the boat, court papers said.

In court this afternoon, a man who identified himself considered in the state of Farler’s father said that isn’t faithful. He said the boat is his, and there were life jackets available.

Farler is being held in the Thurston County Jail without interruption $75,000 handle.

Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy said a witness reported a woman clinging to the overturned vessel on the river and screaming that children were in the supply with water Thursday evening.

“People that know this river tell me the river is high and it’s very fast, and the superficies is surpassingly treacherous as more distant as river perspicacity,” Mealy said. “It’s turbulent and unpredictable.”

McCartney, a Yelm mother who is raising her children while her husband serves in Iraq, and Farler reached shore safely.

McCartney told authorities that she aphorism Pierce try to compass for 5-year-old Sean but he couldn’t grab him. A neighbor who saw the boat accident told police they saw individual of the children floating down the river in our teeth of the boat, endeavor to ingratiate one’s self by papers said.

Divers entered the water at first light, said Jim Chamberlain, Thurston County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy of operations.

The search is essential being conducted by Pierce and Thurston County plunge teams, with help from Seattle Search and Rescue.