Search continues for missing boaters

Three people remain missing after Saturday night’s boat crash south of Stevens Point on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Rescue teams searched for the missing people all day Sunday and Monday.

The three missing adults are all presumed drowned. They have been identified as Justin M. Luhr, 34, of Medical Lake, Wash., and his two passengers, Justin T. Honken, 21, of Post Falls, and Caitlin A. Breeze, 21, of Spokane.

The three were in a 1989 Formula 223LS that was either stationary or moving northbound at the time of the crash, about 9:15 p.m. Saturday. The boat collided with a 2011 Mastercraft X25 open bow boat traveling south on Lake Coeur d’Alene, near Threemile Point between Stevens Point and Swede Bay, according to Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office reports.

There were five adults on board the Mastercraft, all of whom were transported to Kootenai Health for non-life threatening injuries and released.

After a thorough search of the lake’s surface and surrounding shorelines Saturday night, Sunday and Monday morning, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office decided to focus the search on the bottom of the lake, reaching depths up to 120 feet in that area/ Coeur d’Alene Press . More here.