Divers find bones in Portage Lakes North Reservoir
Click to Watch Video
Click to Watch Video
Click to Watch Video
Click to Watch Video
Photographer: WEWS
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Posted: 02/03/2012
AKRON, Ohio - Authorities were searching Friday for a possible body and two safes in Portage Lakes.
Divers began searching Thursday night after receiving a "credible" tip. The search continued Friday morning.
After hours of scouring the North Reservoir area, bones were found on an island.
"Through our investigation, we received information that there could be multiple bodies in this lake area," explained Summit County Sheriff's Inspector Bill Holland. "We have a list of missing people, but we're not saying that any of these people are who we're searching for."
Around 10:45 a.m. Friday, divers found bones on a small island in the lake, behind Dollar Drive in Coventry Township. Summit County Medical Examiner Gary Guenther determined the bones were from an animal.
As of 4:15 p.m. Friday, no bodies were found and divers called off searching the area the size of nearly four football fields in water 30-feet deep.
Sonar did not detect a safe or any weapons in the water, only a piece of plywood and an anchor.
News Channel 5 checked with the Green Fire Department, Coventry Township Fire Department, Akron Fire Department and the Summit County Sheriff's office. All said they did not plan to resume searching this weekend.
The "tip" came into the Summit County Sheriff's Department recently. The agency then coordinated a dive with the Green Fire Department, which was already planning a training drill in the lake Friday.
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
PRINT
Summit Co. Headlines
-
Judge allows Girl Scout camps to be sold
The Girl Scouts went to court in Summit County on Thursday, but not to sell cookies. They were there to fight the sale of four Girl Scout camps.
-
Robbers hold woman, children at gunpoint
Akron police say a brother and sister, along with one of their friends, broke into a home on the west side of the city and held a woman and her children at gunpoint.
-
Akron bar prior serving minor violations
-
Social media makes it easier to cheat
-
Cops guard Nordonia H.S. against pranks
-
Akron bar investigated for serving minor
-
Fire rips through Akron apt. building
