BANGOR, Maine — Officials are hoping later this week to determine a positive identity of a body that was recovered from the Penobscot River last week.
“The body found last Friday is with the State Medical Examiner’s office in Augusta to determine a positive identity, cause and manner of death,” Maine Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald said Monday.
MacDonald said he anticipates further information to be disclosed later this week.
The body of a man was recovered in the area of the Veteran’s Remembrance Bridge around 6:15 p.m. Friday. It was brought ashore in Hampden.
Game wardens, Orono police and Bangor firefighters were working together at the scene Friday, as Maine Maritime Academy student David Breunig, 21, of Westbrook disappeared in Orono on Feb. 26.
Breunig’s phone last pinged a local cellphone tower at 12:05 a.m. Feb. 27, officials have said, and he was last seen walking toward the train tracks near a railroad bridge that crossed the Stillwater River.
Divers searched the Penobscot River near where it connects with the Stillwater based on the possibility Breunig fell from the railroad bridge shortly after he disappeared. Ground and aerial searches have focused on stretches of the river as far away as Stockton Springs, more than 35 miles from Orono.
A message to the medical examiner’s office was not immediately returned Monday morning.
