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DNR deploys sonar, underwater cameras in search for missing man at Lake Monroe

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Conservation officers were still searching at Lake Monroe late Sunday.

A man who disappeared at Lake Monroe was still missing late Sunday at Lake Monroe, investigators said.

The 27-year-old was attending a party on a pontoon boat in the Allens creek area earlier Sunday, Lt. Angela Goldman, a DNR conservation officer, said Sunday.

"We're still on the water, and we're still searching," she said. “Our units are currently utilizing sonar and underwater cameras in an attempt to locate him.”

Goldman said the man's friends told investigators that they saw him struggling to swim near their boat.

"They were just out swimming. He began to struggle, and went under, and did not resurface," Goldman said.

Goldman said she could not release the man's name until investigators had located his next of kin outside the United States.

George Hale is a Multi-Media Journalist at Indiana Public Media. He previously worked as an Investigative Reporter for NPR’s northeast Texas member station KETR. Hale has reported from the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Jordan and Egypt.