AKRON, Ohio – Summit County Tech Rescue and the Akron Fire Department were on the scene Monday of a water recovery operation in the Cuyahoga River.
This is at Cuyahoga Street and Peck Road in the Summit Metro Parks.
Crews are looking for a swimmer who has been missing since Sunday.
Lt. Rick Edwards with Akron police say they received a call around 6:30 p.m. Sunday from a person who said he was swimming with his cousin; they were in the water and the 24-year-old, who is now missing, went out too far. That was the last time he was seen.
Lt. Edwards calls this a recovery operation. He says, according to the cousin, the missing person, identified as Catalino Hernandez, 24, was said to not be a very good swimmer.
The search has been suspended until 9 a.m. Tuesday. ODNR will bring in a cadaver dog to search the shoreline.
This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 8.
