Game Wardens found the body of a 17-year-old boy who drowned in the Saco River in Buxton.
Steel Crawford of Freeport was swimming with friends and swinging on a rope swing at Pleasant Point Park in Buxton. After letting go of the swing, he “landed awkwardly in the deep water and never surfaced,” said Mark Latti, communications director for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Warden Bruce Loring located Crawford’s body in about 50 feet of water around 7 p.m. Friday.
Wardens recovered his body in an area down river of the Route 202 bridge and upriver from the Skeleton Dam, where the water is more than 50 feet deep, Latti said.