Missing man’s body found

By Nok-Noi Ricker
BDN Staff

BRASSUA TOWNSHIP — Concerned loved ones of an 80-year-old Rockwood man who didn’t return from a fishing trip Thursday notified the Maine Warden Service on Friday afternoon, and searchers recovered his body from Brassua Lake later in the day, Warden Cpl. John MacDonald said Saturday.

Richard Weymouth, 80, of Rockwood went fishing on Brassua Lake on Thursday, and his family and friends had not seen or heard from him since, MacDonald said.

Weymouth’s family called the Maine Warden Service around 2 p.m. Friday after not hearing from the octogenarian and after finding his truck missing from his home. Four game wardens and a Maine Warden Service aircraft responded, as well as the deputies from the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office and a Maine Army National Guard helicopter.

“Family and friends located Weymouth’s vehicle off the Demo Road near the South Branch of Brassua Stream in Brassua Township,” MacDonald said. “A search of the area turned up some of his fishing gear.”

Game Warden Will Shuman responded to the area with a boat and found a body in the water, tentatively identified as Weymouth, that was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Augusta for positive identification, the corporal said.