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Belmar Police ID Drowning Victim From Labor Day Rip Currents Belmar Police ID Drowning Victim From Labor Day Rip Currents
Belmar Police ID Drowning Victim From Labor Day Rip Currents Belmar police have identified a swimmer who drowned Sunday evening, Sept. 3. Gilberto Mendez Jr., 42, of Roselle Park, was swimming off Fifth Avenue just after 6 p.m. when he began struggling in rip currents, Belmar Borough police said. Mendez and two other people were pulled from the water by lifeguards and brought to an area hospital. The two other people were treated and released, police said. Lifeguards rescued five other swimmers in distress off Sixth Avenue, they said Three other men drowned while swimming in the ocean off the Jersey Shore over the Labor Day weekend: a 22-year-old fr…

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by Jon Craig