The brother of congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez is missing off the coast of Southern California after an apparent boating accident.
The Associated Press has more:
The sisters say in a statement issued Friday that a debris field found off the coast contained fragments from the boat their brother was aboard with his girlfriend, Penny Avila.
The Coast Guard says Henry Sanchez and his girlfriend left Alamitos Bay near Long Beach late Wednesday or early Thursday en route to Santa Catalina Island and never arrived.
Ensign Stephanie Young says the debris was found about five miles south of the Los Angeles harbor entrance at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
The Contra Costa Times has even more:
The Coast Guard today called off the search that covered more than 300 square miles off the San Pedro coast. On Thursday, life jackets and fiberglass were discovered floating in the ocean.
Henry Sanchez and Avila were aboard a 26- to 28-foot Bayliner that apparently collided with a barge, the Coast Guard said. Debris included a California vessel number that matches the Sanchez boat.
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