DUBUQUE, Iowa — Officials are searching for a missing Dubuque man who was last seen on the Mississippi River Wednesday evening.
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release it received a report around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday that the man, 51-year-old Alan Hartig, was in Wisconsin waters near Finley’s Landing.
According to the sheriff’s office, Hartig was wading in shallow water with his pontoon beached on a sand bar when the boat dislodged and he tried to follow it. Officials recovered the empty pontoon a short distance away.
Search efforts have continued into Thursday but so far have not led to Hartig being found.
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