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The police in Dominica say they have called off a search for Elisha Hill and Dylan Hypolite of Pointe Mitchel because all resources have been exhausted and they cannot continue searching ‘indefinitely.’<\/p>\nThe police in Dominica say they have called off a search for Elisha Hill and Dylan Hypolite of Pointe Mitchel because all resources have been exhausted and they cannot continue searching ‘indefinitely.’<\/p>\n
The men left Pointe Mitchel at about 10 pm on Wednesday August 1st in a 16-foot open keel boat but have not returned since.<\/p>\n
“They are still missing,” police PRO Inspector John Carbon told Dominica News Online. “The coast guard has called off the search because they cannot search indefinitely.”<\/p>\n
He said Martinique search units have also been looking for the men for the past days, \u00a0and their efforts continue.<\/p>\n
Reports are that the boat, registration # J7031PTM, belongs to Denison Etienne also of Pointe Michel.<\/p>\n
Etienne told police that the men borrowed his boat to go on a fishing trip and he received a call from Hill the following day, Thursday August 2, at about 2pm, informing him that \u201cthey (Hill and Hypolite) had encountered engine problems and were drifting towards Martinique.\u201d<\/p>\n
Etienne said he tried, later that day, to call the missing men on a cell phone which Hill was carrying but said he had \u00a0received \u201cno response\u201d from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police in Dominica say they have called off a search for Elisha Hill and Dylan Hypolite of Pointe Mitchel because all resources have been exhausted and they cannot continue searching ‘indefinitely.’ The men left Pointe Mitchel at about 10…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n