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Body Recovered from Lake Wallenpaupack

UPDATE: Missing boater's body found this AM by dive teams on Lake Wallenpaupack. Friends say victim is from NJ @WNEP pic.twitter.com/zsZPsZqSCE — Jim ...
wayne body recovered

PAUPACK TOWNSHIP -- Searchers recovered the body of a man from Lake Wallenpaupack Tuesday morning.

Friends say the body recovered is that of a 35-year-old man from New Jersey who disappeared while swimming on Monday.

The coroner identified the victim as Ernesto Atiencia, 35, of North Bergen, New Jersey.

Officials say the man was swimming off a boat in the lake but never returned.

Divers from nine different departments were called in to help find the missing man.

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