The fire department called in a dive team from Milford to search Clark’s Pond after receiving a report of a person in the water Thursday night.
Luckily, the report was false as emergency crews found no one in the water after a three-hour search.
According to witnesses at the scene, a resident on Hickory Lane spotted a person swimming in Clark’s Pond at about 7 p.m.
The swimmer was told to get out of the water, as Clark’s Pond is private property.
Instead of emerging, the swimmer apparently told the resident to call 911 because a person was drowning.
Police and fire units were on the scene within minutes.
At 7:15 p.m., the swimmer, by this time sitting outside the back of an ambulance with a towel around him, began arguing with ambulance personnel — to the point that three Seymour police officers ran from the shoreline and to the back of the ambulance to subdue the man.
After a preliminary search of the shoreline and water, Seymour firefighters called in a dive team from Milford, who arrived at the pond at about 8 p.m.
The Milford dive specialists used sonar equipment to search for anything that looked like a body. Firefighters were on the scene until about 10 p.m.
The swimmer, meanwhile, was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. He was about 35 years old, white, with blond hair. His name was not immediately available.
“He’s known to us,” Police Lt. Paul J. Satkowski said. “There were parts of his story that really didn’t match up.”
As of 10 p.m. Thursday, no charges had been filed against the man.
