Coast Guard to suspend search for missing Florida boaters. What we know Monday

The search continued Monday for a 57-year-old Fort Myers attorney and his 33-year-old nephew who were reported missing Dec. 19 after a deep-sea fishing trip off the Southwest Florida coast.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) found the boat floating, upright, but there were no signs of the missing boaters.

A new grid search by volunteer searchers was expected to start Monday morning, Dec. 22, about 70 miles west and south-southwest of Fort Myers in a 20-degree arc, according to an email from Petty Officer Riley Perkofski, USCG public affairs officer…

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