Port Jefferson Man Drowns in Long Island Sound

By Timothy Bolger Posted on August 15, 2016

A 42-year-old Port Jefferson man drowned while swimming in the Long Island Sound over the weekend.

Suffolk County police said Mouhamed Souleiman was on a boat with friends when he went for a swim south of the Middle Ground Lighthouse but the current caused him to drift away from the boat at 12:10 p.m. Sunday. Two friends on the boat found Souleiman in the water, unresponsive and pulled him aboard, police said.

He was taken by Marine Bureau officers to Port Jefferson Marina, where he was transferred to an ambulance that took him to St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, where he was pronounced dead.

Homicide Squad detectives are continuing the investigation and said the death appears to be non-criminal.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.