A man’s body has been pulled from a car seen entering the Manitowoc River on Friday night, but it took until Saturday to locate and extract him.
Manitowoc Police Captain Jeremy Kronforst said witnesses saw a vehicle on Maritime Drive stopped for a red light at North 10th Street. When the light turned green, the vehicle entered 10th Street, hopped the curb, traveled down the embankment and into the Manitowoc River. The Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team and State DNR staff searched until midnight when weather and water conditions forced a pause.
The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Dive Team and Manitowoc Fire Department joined the search Saturday morning and located that car west of the 10th Street bridge, recovered the vehicle and found a single male occupant deceased inside. His identity is being withheld pending family notification, and the investigation into why the vehicle went into the river is continuing.
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