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Police recover body of missing boater from Grand Lake

MAYES COUNTY, Okla. — The body of a boater missing since Memorial Day weekend has been recovered from Grand Lake, the GRDA police reported.

According to GRDA police, they received a call shortly before 8 p.m. from a boater who spotted the body in the water, along Langley bluff, about a mile north of Pensacola Dam.

Officers made recovery a short time later, in a water depth of 90 feet. the police said. The man’s clothing matches the description of Troy Young. 48, of Bixby.

GRDA police have been searching Grand Lake for Young since Saturday morning, May 28, after recovering his boat near the entrance of Ketchum Cove. Young was last seen in that boat, a 24-foot blue Yellowfin, leaving Cedar Port Marina, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Friday evening, May 27.

The official identification of the body will come from the Oklahoma Medical Examiner, police said.

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