BERLIN TOWNSHIP (WWJ) A body washed up on the shores of Lake Erie in Monroe County, sheriff’s officials said.<\/p>\n
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said authorities received a 911 call on Saturday, July 11, around 8:30 p.m. It came from a boater in the Pointe Mouillee State Game Area near the Banana Dikes, reporting an apparent body floating in the water near the northernmost dike.<\/p>\n
The boater made the discovery approximately 15 feet from shore.<\/p>\n
Divers from the Sheriff’s Office Marine Division recovered the body from 3 to 4 feet of water. The Lucas County Coroner’s Office will help identify the person and conduct an autopsy.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, Monroe County authorities learned of a missing kayaker, 30-year-old Jesus “Chewy” Sanchez. Brownstown Township Police said he disappeared on the water when a severe storm moved through while he kayaked near Celeron Island on July 3.Investigators are working to determine if the body is that of Sanchez.<\/p>\n
Berlin Township Fire Department, Brownstown Township Police, The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Monroe Community Ambulance all assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n
This investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information can contact the Monroe County Detective Bureau at (734) 240-7530.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN TOWNSHIP (WWJ) A body washed up on the shores of Lake Erie in Monroe County, sheriff’s officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1188,136,138,137,2941],"class_list":["post-241786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-body-found","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-monroe-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241786","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=241786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}