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FL investigators still searching for Albany man
Posted: 12.22.2009 at 5:01 PM
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Investigators say 34-year-old John Mark Slappey was duck hunting in Lake Seminole on Sunday from a float tube when he drifted toward a dam

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The search is still under way for an Albany man who went missing in a Florida River.

Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say 34-year-old John Mark Slappey was duck hunting in Lake Seminole on Sunday from a float tube when he drifted toward a dam. Investigators say he was swept through a lock at the Jim Woodruff Dam and disappeared into the Apalachicola River.

Houston County, Alabama has sent cadaver dogs to help find Slappey.

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