RedactedNarrative: At approximately 0930 on 7/10/2018 I was contacted by Willard Bay camp host who told me that there was a white Jeep parked on Eagle Beach that had been there since Sunday night.  SUBJECT1 also told me that on the beach in the same area on Sunday night she had picked up some items that were on the beach that included flip flops, a chair, a towel, two bags, a drink, and a set of keys.  I took the keys and verified that they did in fact go to the vehicle.  I unlocked and started the vehicle to confirm that it was not broken down.  I asked dispatch to send a Perry Officer to the residence of the registered owner to see if they could make contact with anyone.  Nobody was at home and none of the neighbors had seen him.  I collected the items from SUBJECT1 and took them to our office for safe keeping.  I searched the vehicle to see if there was anything to help us fine the registered owner and found a business card for OPERATOR.  We attempted to contact the place of employment and found that it was an old business card.  I called Box Elder County Sheriffs Office for assistance and asked if their dive team could come out and run some side sonar in the area of Eagle Beach where the stuff was found.  I then went out with Ranger and started to search the area of Eagle Beach while we waited for Box Elder County to arrive.
  
  At approximately 1400 hours Bow Elder County dive team and Sheriff arrived to assist.  I gave them information and the dive team started to search the area while Sheriff and I worked with Detectives on locating family.  OFFICER1 was able to get in touch with family and friends that hadn't heard from OPERATOR since Sunday evening and also that he was an avid paddle boarder that came to Willard Bay a lot.  With this information we started widening the search and looking for the paddle board.  I sent officers on around the dike and we continued searching on the water as well.  OFFICER1 was able to ping OPERATOR's phone to the area and then use find my phone to find OPERATOR's Iphone on the north dike at approximately 19:20.  Using this information we developed a plan for continuing the search the next morning.  I made contact with family members and friends that had arrived and gave them an update of the situation.  Two people were identified as contacts for the family.  
  
  On 7/11/2018 at approximately 07:00 we started preparing to continue the search.  I sent seasonal to the Willow Creek campground area north to look while we got the rest ready to go.  At 07:33 Seasonal called me saying that he found OPERATOR on the north dike by the outlet.  I responded and notified OFFICER1 who was at command with family members.  I also had State Parks and Box Elder County boats respond to assist with the recovery.  I arrived with officers on the dike and could see OPERATOR's body against the rocks.  There was blood coming from his head that appeared to be from hitting the rocks.  With the help from the boats we loaded OPERATOR in to a boat.  OPERATOR was then transported to our maintenance yard to wait for the medical examiner.  I went to command to notify the family and OFFICER1 had them gathered around.  I notified the family that we had recovered OPERATOR and also called family to notify him as he was not there yet.  I took some of the family to see the body with the medical examiner and then went back to Eagle Beach at the request of the family to talk with them.  The family gave me a written statement they had for the press release and a photo that I forwarded to our PIO.  In our media release we asked for help in locating the paddle board that was not recovered to see if it would give us any more information on what happened.
  
  On 7/12/2018 we received multiple calls about the incident.  One was a female, subject3, that was talking to OPERATOR before it happened. SUBJECT3 said that she talked with OPERATOR on the phone starting at 6:33 PM and that it lasted 1 hour and 44 minutes. SUBJECT3 said that OPERATOR was using earbuds that allowed him to talk and listen to music while out on the water. SUBJECT3 said that while they were talking that OPERATOR mentioned boats around and waves. The last thing said was that a wave was coming in and hold on. SUBJECT3 said that they got disconnected and she just thought that they would talk later. Another was a female that watched OPERATOR get ready and head out on his paddle board. Subject4 said that she saw OPERATOR talking on a bluetooth while pumping up his paddle board and heading out on the water around 730 and 800 pm. Subject4 saw a life jacket on the front of the paddle board but not on OPERATOR. Subject4 said that a short time after she saw OPERATOR go out on the water that a storm came through that was pretty bad blowing sand so they packed up and left. A third call was from a male that said he found the paddle board. I forwarded that information onto Ranger for him to follow up on.
  
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