Sheriff’s office still investigating Snake River death
By Katie Pizza
Argus Observer
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
Weiser — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating the cause of a boating accident on the Snake River near Weiser that killed a Fruitland man Friday.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Aaron T. Grant, 36, and two friends were traveling west in an 18-foot jet boat when the craft hit a steel cable that is stretched across the river for the construction of a new bridge between Weiser and Annex. Grant died at the scene, Washington County Sheriff Marv Williams said. The incident was called into Washington County dispatch at 7:34 p.m. Friday.
Williams said the area was marked.
While Grant was not wearing a lifejacket, Williams said that was not a factor in his death.
“The lifejacket had nothing to do with it,” he said. “Nobody hit the water.”
Williams also declined to release the names of the other two people on the boat, asserting that the investigation was not a criminal one.
“I’d like to talk to the other two people and see if they want their names released,” he said.
