Man drowns while repairing boat
A Pleasant Plains man drowned earlier this week while working on his boat.
By Region 8 Newsdesk | March 10, 2021 at 9:13 AM CST - Updated March 10 at 9:13 AM
CLEBURNE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - A Pleasant Plains man drowned earlier this week while working on his boat.
According to a Wednesday news release from Cleburne County Sheriff Chris Brown, the incident happened around 3:42 p.m. March 8 at Shiloh Marina on Greers Ferry Lake.
Family members told investigators 55-year-old Robert Beel of Pleasant Plains had been in the water working on a boat. After he went back in a second time, he failed to resurface.