Patrol vehicle of Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making arrest recovered from river
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The patrol vehicle of a Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered from a river a day after he went missing, authorities said.
The patrol vehicle of a Tennessee deputy who disappeared after making an arrest has been recovered from a river a day after he went missing, authorities said. However, the search for the deputy continues.
Meigs County Deputy Robert "R.J." Leonard's vehicle was pulled from the Tennessee River on Thursday, in an area on the border of Meigs and Hamilton counties, officials said.
The body of a woman believed to be the arrestee has been recovered from the backseat of the vehicle, though the deputy remains missing, authorities said.
A search for the deputy remains ongoing, according to Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett.
"We always hope that it's a rescue, so we always hold out that hope. But we also have to face the facts that are in front of us," Garrett said at a press briefing Thursday afternoon. "We won't lose hope that we could still recover him."
