David Gordon Johnson, a veteran automotive journalist, was test-driving a motorcycle in the Sierra Nevada for a story when he went missing on Wednesday. Johnson’s girlfriend, Jaclyn Trop, told The Washington Post that she texted Johnson late Tuesday to ask if he was OK after she had not heard from him in awhile. They found his clothing, cellphone and laptop a few feet from the river, Calaveras County Lt. Anthony Eberhardt told the Associated Press. The river is at a high flow, Eberhardt told the AP, and was moving at around 56 km/h. Johnson and Trop had spent the weekend before Johnson’s trip in Los Angeles before Trop flew to Florida and her boyfriend took the motorcycle to Las Vegas, Trop told The Post.

Source: National Post June 12, 2019 17:03 UTC