The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed reports of a possible drowning Sunday afternoon somewhere near Jordan Island.
According to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, emergency service personnel responded to a call from Jordan Marina at approximately 3:47 Sunday afternoon on a report that a man, 70-year-old Charles Hogan Daniels, had jumped into the water at a location north of Jordan Island, on Lake Norfork, from a boat and disappeared.The Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas Game and Fish, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Rangers, and Fire/Rescue teams went to the area by boat and began to search for the man. At approximately 11:30 Sunday night search teams believed they had possibly found the body on sonar in approximately 115 feet of water.Divers are going down to an area later Monday morning to try and make the recovery.
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