Second pond search yields no Mendez clues

LYNN – State Police concluded a search Wednesday at Floating Bridge Pond in connection with missing Swampscott mother Jaimee Mendez, reporting that nothing was found.”State Police utilized divers and side-scan sonar deployed from a boat to search the pond, which straddles Route 107,” Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said in a press release. “For the second consecutive day, nothing related to Ms. Mendez’s disappearance was located.”Mendez, 25, was last seen on the evening of Nov. 6, reportedly in the company of a man who made her uncomfortable, according to her family. Mendez called a friend to pick her up but was nowhere to be found, the family told reporters.Mendez was officially reported missing Nov. 8, and Salem, Lynn, Swampscott and State Police began searching, reportedly recovering Mendez’s phone and jacket from a Salem technology park near the Swampscott and Lynn borders. SWAT teams, K-9 Units and officers on foot scoured the woods behind the technology park last week.Meanwhile, Jason Fleury, the man whom Mendez was with, told The Item that he had nothing to do with the young mother’s disappearance, last seeing her after a drug deal. Police have not identified any suspects or charged anybody in the disappearance.Divers began searching Floating Bridge Pond on Tuesday morning, with police citing the pond’s proximity to the technology park. The divers returned with sonar Wednesday morning but did not recover anything.Procopio said divers do not currently plan to return to the pond.