A 17-year-old has been charged with murder in the death of a paddleboarder who went missing in Maine, authorities said on Friday.

Maine State Police said on Thursday that a teenage boy, who has not been publicly named, was taken into custody the night before in Union.

The teen was charged with one count of murder, the state attorney general's office said on Friday.

Sunshine Stewart, 48, was found dead during a search of Crawford Pond on July 3 in the town of Union, Maine State Police said last week in a statement . The Office of Chief Medical Examiner in Augusta said the cause of death was strangulation and blunt force trauma.

The arrest was the "result of relentless investigative work" and the teen was taken to Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, police

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