The St. Clair County Sheriff Dive Team has recovered a person from the St. Clair River on Thursday evening and are awaiting confirmation of the identity of the man to see if it is the same person who reportedly jumped from the Blue Water Bridge earlier in the day.
Dive Team officials say the man was located near Pine Grove Park in Port Huron about 6:30 p.m. The search for a man in the river first started early Thursday morning.
Police say a jogger in the 1700 block of Thomas Edison Parkway heard a splash and then saw the head of a person in the water shortly after 6 a.m.
The jogger looked up and saw the headlights of a vehicle on the bridge, according to Port Huron police who believe the man to be a 32-year-old Sarnia, Ontario man who had been listed as endangered and missing.
Port Huron Police say a positive identification of the body recovered Thursday night was not yet confirmed, so it cannot definitively be concluded the man found was the same man who jumped off the bridge.
The Port Huron Police Department responded to the bridge and located a vehicle with Ontario plates while U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents closed one lane of the Blue Water Bridge for a short period of time.
The U.S. Coast Guard, Port Huron Fire Department and St. Clair County Sheriff Dive Team assisted in the search for the victim.
