BLOOMINGDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Authorities will start searching again for the body of a man who drowned in a Van Buren County lake.
The search, which the Van Buren County Sheriff’s Office told 24 Hour News 8 is a recovery effort, will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday on Muskrat Lake in Bloomingdale Township.
The sheriff’s office says deputies were called around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday for reports of someone who was peeping into windows and trying to break into a vehicle and garage at a subdivision near the lake in northern Van Buren County.
Deputies followed footprints in the snow then spotted a person dressed all in black carrying a shovel. When deputies tried to make contact, the person ran away.
A short time later, authorities received a second call of an unknown person in the yard of a home in the area. When deputies got to the scene, they found a man in a sinking canoe about 100 yards offshore yelling for help.