Rescuers search lake for missing man

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Rescuers will continue to search Lake Champlain Tuesday for a man who disappeared from Mallets Bay early Monday morning.

Police say 45-old David Leavitt, of Burlington, told people at Nightcrawlers, a Colchester bar, that he planned to drive his Jeep Cherokee onto the ice around 12:30 a.m. Monday.

Colchester police say witnesses told them Leavitt had been drinking.

Colchester Police Lt. Doug Allen says Leavitt called 911 from his cell phone shortly before 1 a.m. asking for help but wasn’t specific. The call was traced to an area in Colchester that includes Mallets Bay.

The U.S. Coast Guard, police and rescuers searched the ice on Monday and planned to continue the search Tuesday.

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