MINOCQUA, WI (WSAU) — Police in Minocqua are investigating the drowning of an 18-year-old from Jefferson County over the weekend.
Offers were called to Mercer Lake at around 8:30 Sunday evening after Maxwell Pipp was seen going under the water and not emerging for several minutes. Friends say he was on a pontoon boat and decided to go for a swim.
While in the water, he was towed by a rope attached to the pontoon but was not wearing a life jacket.
No further information has been released and police have not said whether they’ve recovered Pipp’s body.
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