For the second time in two months, Ocean Ridge public safety officers were called upon to assist the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in the search for a missing swimmer whose body was later discovered several miles north of where he first disappeared.
The body of Billy Jeudi, 23, was discovered on Feb. 14, in the Intracoastal Waterway near the 7000 block of Dixie Highway in Hypoluxo, the day after he was reportedly caught in a rip current and swept into the Boynton Inlet.
After a woman who was swimming with Jeudi reported him missing at 6 a.m. on Feb. 13, sheriff’s deputies instigated a large-scale search that included the sheriff’s marine patrol, helicopter, the U.S. Coast Guard and officers from Ocean Ridge.
A month earlier, the body of another swimmer, 15-year-old Sebastian Francois, was found at the Boynton Inlet after he disappeared while swimming in the area.
— Rich Pollack
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