Crime & Safety

Missing Boater Found

Henry Cho of California has been missing since he took a canoe out onto Farrington Lake on Saturday.

The body of a man missing since Saturday was found in Farrington Lake at approximately 6:50 p.m. tonight (Wednesday).

According to police, the body of  Henry Cho, 30, of Chatsworth, Calif.. was found following a search that began after he was reported missing at 7:34 p.m. Saturday.  Cho was visiting family over the weekend when he took his cousin’s canoe out onto the lake to fish. Several hours later, the canoe was found, but Cho was missing.

The East Brunswick Police Department, East Brunswick Fire Department District 3 Marine Unit, and the New Jersey State Police dive, aviation and K-9 units conducted the search.

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According to police, one of Cho’s relatives from East Brunswick contacted police at just before 7 p.m. Wednesday and told them that he saw what he believed to be a body in the Lake.  The East Brunswick Police Department and East Brunswick Fire Department District 3 Marine Unit responded and was able to remove Cho’s body from the water.  Paramedics from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital had pronounced Cho dead at the scene. 

The medical examiner’s office took Cho’s body and will perform an autopsy in order to determine a cause of death.

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