{"id":241714,"date":"2026-07-12T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241714\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:37:12","slug":"individual-found-dead-in-lake-erie-monroe-county-sheriffs-office-says-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241714\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual found dead in Lake Erie, Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says; investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after an individual was found dead in Lake Erie off the coast of Berlin Township, Michigan, on Saturday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A boater in the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area called 911 around 8:30 p.m. after seeing what appeared to be a body, later identified as the individual, floating in the water.<\/p>\n<p>The law enforcement agency said the individual was recovered from the water by members of the agency&#8217;s marine division and dive team. They&#8217;ve been taken to the Lucas County Coroner&#8217;s Office in Ohio for an autopsy and to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe County investigators said police in Brownstown Township received a report on July 3 of a missing 30-year-old kayaker in the vicinity of Celeron Island, which is north of the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area. The kayaker, identified as Jesus Sanchez, disappeared after a severe storm moved through the area where they were paddling, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, it&#8217;s unknown whether the individual found dead is that of Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Saturday&#8217;s incident is asked to call the Monroe County Detective Bureau at 734-240-7530  <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after an individual was found dead in Lake Erie off the coast of Berlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1188,62034,136,138,137,260,2941,103693],"class_list":["post-241714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-body-found","tag-brownstown-township","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lake-erie","tag-monroe-county","tag-monroe-county-sheriff039s-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241714","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=241714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}