HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – A search was called off in Lake Michigan for a possible missing person.
The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Dive Team says on Saturday March 25 around 2:43 p.m., a juvenile reported seeing a man in Lake Michigan in the 7000 block of North Shore Estates Road, north of Ottawa County’s North Beach County Park.
The Sheriff’s Office Road Patrol along with the Dive Team were assisted by the U.S. Coast Guard. They were told that the sighting was seen through or over a tree and that the subject was seen about 300-400 yards off shore.
Sgt. Brian Buter says the team searched the the beach and waters from elevated residences in the area and the Coast Guard set up a grid pattern which searched the general area in the calm waters of Lake Michigan.
No subject was located and based on the search and no reports of anyone missing, it was determined that the incident was unfounded.
