MARQUETTE, Kan. (AP) — Crews have recovered a body matching the description of an 18-year-old man reported missing while kayaking on Kanopolis Lake.
Ellsworth County Sheriff Tracy Ploutz says the body was found Friday morning in the southwest part of the lake.
Derek Wheeler of Salina has been missing since early Tuesday when he and others set in kayaks from Sand Plum Campground.
A man fishing from a boat Friday morning noticed something at the shoreline and notified searchers in law enforcement boats. Ploutz says officers confirmed it was a body. The sheriff says Wheeler’s family has been notified.