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A 17-year-old male has been arrested in the killing of a woman whose body was discovered hours after she went paddleboarding on a wooded pond this month near coastal Maine.

Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, 48, died from strangulation and blunt force trauma, Maine State Police said in a statement Thursday.

Investigators said she had gone paddleboarding alone the evening of July 2 on Crawford Pond in Union. After she didn’t return hours later, someone reported her missing. Her body was found near an island in the middle of the pond sometime after 1 a.m. on July 3.

Police said they arrested the teen in Union on Wednesday night without incident. He was taken to the Long Creek Youth Development Center — a juvenile detention facility in South Portl

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