A public health expert testified Wednesday that Jay E. Farrug likely had a blood-alcohol level of .12 to .15 at the time his boat crashed into another on Nippersink Lake in September, killing two people.
Farrug, 37, of Woodridge is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Patrick Conley, 39, and Jan Stanley-Farragher, 44, both of Island Lake.
Two hours after the accident, which happened about 11 p.m. Sept. 26, doctors at Centegra Memorial Medical Center in Woodstock tested Farrug’s blood-alcohol level, and police tested it again at 2:45 a.m.
Standardizing the two testing methods, Joerg N. Pirl, chief of toxicology and metabolic diseases at the Illinois Department of Public Health, calculated that Farrug’s blood-alcohol content was .081 at 2:45 a.m.; .109 at 1:16 a.m.; and would have been .15 at 11 p.m. If Farrug had a beer immediately before the accident that had not been absorbed, the level would have been .12, Pirl said.
Farrug’s attorney, Charles Smith, tried and failed again Wednesday to have the first blood-alcohol test excluded.
