UPDATE: Coast Guard searching for 75-year-old fisherman near Avon, NC

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 11/21/2018 10:29 AM EST

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UPDATE: Coast Guard searching for 75-year-old fisherman near Avon, NC

 

WILMINGTON, N.C. — The Coast Guard continues to search for 75-year-old mariner Anthony Neri who did not return from a fishing trip near Avon, North Carolina, Monday.  

Coast Guard crewmembers located a boat matching the description of Neri’s Carolina Skiff 24 miles southeast of the Oregon Inlet Sea Buoy at 1:40 a.m., Wednesday.

The Coast Guard and other partner agencies have searched approximately 2,122 square-miles within the past 48 hours.

Anyone with information regarding this case should call the Sector North Carolina Command Center at 910-362-4015.

For more information about this case, please visit our previous release here. 

 

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