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Article: Badge Returned to Deputy After 30 Years
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- AP Online
- Article date:
- July 27, 2007
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SAUGATUCK, Mich. - More than 30 years after falling into Lake Michigan, a badge belonging to a former sheriff's deputy is back with its rightful owner thanks to a tourist who found it along the shoreline.
Max Elenbaas, now 61 and retired, was fishing from a boat in the mid-1970s when he bent over and accidentally dropped the badge into the water.
"You lose something in Lake Michigan a mile and a half, two miles out, it's not going to come back ...