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Contact: Edie Smith, Spokesperson
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
284 State Street
41 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333


Telephone:
work (207) 592-4348

Fax: (207) 287-6395

April 25, 2010

Guilford Man Dies in Watercraft-Related Incident

Augusta, Maine - Harold Jones Sr., 61, of Guilford died Saturday night, April 24, while boating on Onawa Lake in Elliotsville Township.

Mr. Jones told family he was going to try out a watercraft. When he did not return, family and friends began searching for him, and contacted Piscataquis County dispatch, which notified the Maine Warden Service at 7:50 p.m., according to MWS Lt. Kevin Adam.

Family found Mr. Jones in the water at approximately 9 p.m. He was transported to the Maine Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta.

The incident is under investigation.

This is Maine’s first inland watercraft-related fatality of 2010.