Article: Badge Returned to Deputy After 30 Years

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 ...

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