MOUND, Minn. - The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office says that they have halted a search for a snowmobiler on Lake Minnetonka after what appeared to be a false alarm.
Emergency responders investigated and found nothing after witnesses said that a snowmobiler disappeared after traveling underneath a bridge on Lake Minnetonka on Monday afternoon.
The brief search was conducted near Westedge Boulevard in Mound, which lies between Priest Bay and Halsted's Bay.
Mound Fire, the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and Ridgeview Ambulance were called to the scene at about 4 p.m.
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