The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office retrieves a submerged pickup truck from the Montgomery County State Lake.

 

Deputies were dispatched to the State Lake, located just south of Independence on Friday evening, August 14, after a citizen who was fishing at the lake reported locating what appeared to be a vehicle submerged in the water using a fish finder. The vehicle was located near the dock on the northeast side of the lake.

 

On Sunday, the vehicle was removed from the lake with the assistance of Kansas Wildlife and Parks and Wyandotte Oklahoma Volunteer Fire Department dive team. The vehicle was identified as a silver 2004 Dodge Dakota 4x4. The truck appeared to have been in the water for long period of time. There was no one in the vehicle and the truck had no plates.

 

The circumstances surrounding how and when the vehicle ended up in the lake remain under investigation.

 

Anyone with information regarding the vehicle or how it came to be in the water is asked to contact the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office at 620-330-1000