OTTUMWA — On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024 at approximately 4:21 p.m.; The Ottumwa Police Department received a report of an adult male subject who was last seen swimming in the Des Moines River. It was reported that the subject went swimming earlier in the day with a group of individuals in the Des Moines River near the Hwy 34 overpass bridge next to the JBS plant in Ottumwa, Iowa. 

The Wapello County Sheriff’s Office, the Ottumwa Fire Department, the Eldon Fire Department, and the Iowa DNR are currently still searching the river and embankments. 

The identity of the missing individual is currently being withheld.