{"id":240365,"date":"2026-07-10T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240365\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:25:11","slug":"brownstown-township-police-still-seeking-kayaker-who-was-lost-in-july-3-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240365\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownstown Township police still seeking kayaker who was lost in July 3 storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Brownstown Township, Michigan, continue to ask for the public&#8217;s help in locating a Monroe man who was last seen on a kayak as severe storms pushed into the western shore of Lake Erie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jesus &#8220;Chewy&#8221; Sanchez, 30, of Monroe, was kayaking with two friends on the evening of July 3. Police say they were traveling back from Celeron Island to Downriver Marina as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/storms-to-come-amid-heat-southeast-michigan\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">severe windstorm<\/a>\u00a0resulted in winds of 70 mph and waves reaching 10 to 20 feet. This was the same storm that resulted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/power-outages-severe-storms-southeast-michigan\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 400,000 power outages<\/a>\u00a0across Southeast Michigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three kayakers became separated and capsized, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two of the three kayakers were rescued by passing jet skiers. Sanchez has not been seen since,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrownstownPolice\/posts\/pfbid02o1N6zqjS1omdyJNBkk7SGbBh7xWG9J6LfFTnTa3jMwXUEDrw7cy1jto4fsYg2JBml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brownstown police said<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Search efforts so far included Brownstown Township Police Department, Brownstown Professional Fire Fighters, Grosse Ile Police Department, Grosse Ile Fire Department, Wayne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Marine Division, Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Michigan State Police, U.S. Coast Guard and the Downriver Mutual Aid Dive Search and Rescue Team. Brownstown officers also deployed drones to assist in the search.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/brownstown-police-missing-flier.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"brownstown-police-missing-flier.jpg \" height=\"511\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Missing person flier for Jesus Sanchez of Monroe, Michigan, who was last seen kayaking along Lake Erie on July 3, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Brownstown Township Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez is about 5 feet and 5 inches tall, about 190 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, police said. He was last seen wearing blue and green swimming trunks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on weather conditions and lake currents, authorities believe he could be located anywhere along the shoreline of Lake Erie, including Michigan, Ohio, or Canadian waters,&#8221; police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers ask that anyone who was on Lake Erie that evening and have information on the man&#8217;s possible location, or have since found anything that might help in the investigation, to call Brownstown Township Police Department at 734-675-1300.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brownstown Township, Michigan, continue to ask for the public&#8217;s help in locating a Monroe man who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[62034,136,138,137,260,3745,61548,11366,1522,49294,1481],"class_list":["post-240365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-brownstown-township","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-state-police","tag-monroe","tag-severe-weather","tag-united-states-coast-guard","tag-wayne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}