KENNEBUNKPORT (AP) — Officials on Sunday continued searching for two young men who attended a Maine boat-building school and disappeared without a clue after a small party at one of their houses.
Police said 21-year-old Zachary Wells of Burlington, Vt., and 23-year-old Prescott Wright of Barnstable, Mass., were last seen drinking beer with a small group of friends at Wells’ Mills Road residence. Wells and Wright are students at The Landing School, a boat-building and yacht design school in Arundel.
Witnesses told police the men were intoxicated, Police Chief Craig Sanford said. They weren’t in the home when another resident went downstairs to turn off a radio at 4 a.m. Thursday, and they didn’t show up for classes Thursday or Friday.
Nothing indicates foul play, Sanford said, and searches of ocean waters, roadsides and marshy areas have failed to turn up any clues.
On Sunday, the search continued with a Warden Service airplane searching from the air and the Maine Marine Patrol and members of Wells’ and Wright’s families searching on the ground, Sanford said.
“There’s no one area to pinpoint because we don’t know where they might have gone,” he said.
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