Searchers continued to look in a marshy area of the St. Lawrence River on Saturday for a man missing from a nearby Mohawk community after pulling the bodies of eight migrants from the chilly waters earlier this week.
Authorities provided no updates in their hunt for 30-year-old Casey Oakes, who was last seen Wednesday night operating a boat that was found next to the migrants’ bodies the following day. Police have not made any direct connections between Oakes and the deaths.
Akwesasne Mohawk Police said they are working with Immigration Canada and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to confirm the identities of the eight migrants….