Report: Authorities trace missing QB's cell phone signal
Authorities on Tuesday picked up the signal of a cell phone belonging to Cullen Finnerty, a three-time Division II champion quarterback who briefly played in the NFL, according to a report. Finnerty has been missing since Sunday night, prompting a massive search in northern Michigan.
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The search for Cullen Finnerty, a three-time Division II champion quarterback who briefly played in the NFL, gained focus Tuesday when a signal from his cell phone was picked up 11 miles north of his last known location, mlive.com reports.
Finnerty, 30, has been missing since Sunday night when he went fishing alone in the Baldwin River, near his northern Michigan cabin. Current and former members of the Grand Valley State football team, where Finnerty played on title teams in 2003, ’05 and ’06, are helping in the search. Authorities also are using helicopters and dogs.
Sources told mlive.com that volunteers and a trained searcher were headed to the area where the phone was traced.
Lake County Sheriff Robert Hilts told the Ludington Daily News that Finnerty "went fishing (Sunday) night and suffered some kind of a nervous episode and went running off into the woods."
A flyer being circulated on Facebook’s Missing Cases page says:
“Finnerty was having what his family describes as an episode and say he was scared and wandered into the woods. Police were able to find the small pontoon boat he was using to fish. His family says he suffered several concussions in his career and they are concerned it may have triggered this episode.”
Finnerty, who is married with two young children, graduated in business management from Grand Valley. The team was 51-4 in his four seasons at the school, finishing second in voting for the D-II equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, the Harlon Hill Award, in 2006. He had brief NFL stints with the Ravens and Broncos.
