Minn. conservation officer dies after being thrown from boat
By: Deanna Weniger, Pioneer Press
CROSSLAKE, Minn. — A conservation officer responding to a call about a possible body in the water, was thrown from a boat Friday evening and drowned.
The Pine County sheriff’s office said a deputy and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officer were dispatched to Cross Lake, east of Pine City, around 7:45 p.m. after people fishing from the shore said they’d seen something odd in the water.
Within a minute of leaving the launch, both officers were thrown from the boat into the water. They began swimming towards shore. Additional deputies procured a row boat from a neighboring property and attempted to rescue the officers, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
