BAY CITY, MI -- Responding to reports of boaters littering the Saginaw River with beer bottles, police ended up arresting a woman after she drunkenly tried urinating off of their patrol boat.

About 8:40 p.m. on Thursday, June 29 -- the first evening of the three-night Bay City Fireworks Festival -- two deputies of the Bay County Sheriff's Office's Marine Division responded to call on the river near the Veterans Memorial Boat Launch. The caller stated revelers aboard a pleasure craft were chucking bottles from the vessel, said Sheriff Troy R. Cunningham.

The deputies located the boat in question and boarded it. Aboard were two men and four women, who were initially unwilling to listen to deputies' commands, Cunningham said.

Deputies saw numerous empty 12-ounce beer bottles on the boat's floor, the sheriff said.

Deputies determined a 24-year-old man was wanted on two outstanding warrants, arrested him, and requested backup from a road patrol deputy to take him to jail.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old woman boarded the deputies' boat despite their instructions she not do so. When deputies asked her for ID, she retorted that she wanted to see their ID, Cunningham said.

The woman, who was wearing a dress, then said she had to urinate. She sat on the edge of the deputies' boat and removed her underwear, the sheriff said. Deputies stopped the woman before she could commence urinating and arrested her on a disorderly conduct charge.

Oddly enough, the woman earlier in the month pleaded guilty to the same charge stemming from an April 8 incident that occurred in Hampton Township.

The other four people on the boat were not arrested, Cunningham said.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel assisted deputies at the scene.

As of Wednesday, July 5, both arrested parties have bonded out of the Bay County Jail.