{"id":186604,"date":"2019-12-13T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186604"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:03:54","slug":"search-for-missing-man-called-off-located-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=186604","title":{"rendered":"Man identified, fell through ice near Medina, drowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Drowning-winter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-186663\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Drowning-winter-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Drowning-winter-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Drowning-winter-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Drowning-winter.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0\u00a0 The Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office has released the name of a Medina man, who fell through the ice, and drowned\u00a0 on December 2, or 3, 2019, in area that was flooded along Old Highway 10 about four miles east of Medina.<\/p>\n<p>Stutsman County Sheriff, Chad Kaiser, identified him 60 year old Craig Wells of Medina.<\/p>\n<p>The Stutsman County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was not notified until about 3:25 p.m. Saturday, December, 7. Officers from the Stutsman County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Jamestown Fire Department searched until dark that Saturday and the continued \u00a0the search on Sunday morning, December. 8.\u00a0 His body was recovered about 10:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Stutsman County underwater remote operated vehicle, known as an ROV, was used in the search and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update&#8230;\u00a0 Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Stutsman County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reports, a 60 year old\u00a0man reported missing Saturday night, has died after falling through ice about four miles east of Medina, on a flooded section of old 10 Highway .\u00a0 His UTV was reported abandoned on the ice with its lights on.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser\u00a0said that the man was reported missing on Saturday and possibly had fallen through the ice. The accident may have happened on Monday or Tuesday last week, but the sheriff&#8217;s office was not contacted until about 3:25 p.m. Saturday, December, 7.<\/p>\n<p>A search by the\u00a0Stutsman County Dive &amp; Rescue team&#8217;s underwater ROV Saturday until dark turned up nothing. When the search resumed Sunday his body was recovered about 10:30-a.m.<\/p>\n<p>His UTV had not fallen through the ice.\u00a0 When the man began walking on the ice, he broke through the an area of minimal ice thickness and fell in.<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death will be determined.\u00a0 His name is being withheld until relatives are notified.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser again cautions residents to not walk or drive on ice cover until colder temperature thicken the ice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0\u00a0 The Stutsman County Sheriff\u2019s Office has released the name of a Medina man, who fell through the ice, and drowned\u00a0 on December 2, or 3, 2019, in area that was flooded along Old Highway 10 about four miles east of Medina. Stutsman County Sheriff, Chad Kaiser, identified him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186604"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187154,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186604\/revisions\/187154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}