BENTON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Crews have spent most of the day on scene recovering a truck from Lackawanna Lake and it looks like it’s been there for years.

The truck was discovered Saturday by a fisherman. Now there’s an investigation. This section of Lackawanna State Park has been closed for most of the day. They are working to contain chemicals from the truck being pulled out of the water.

A sonar picture captures what a fisherman saw Saturday afternoon while fishing in Lackawanna Lake. A different fisherman, Chad Baier, sent another photo of the truck from a different angle.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or DCNR confirmed the findings Saturday evening.

“We didn’t know the condition the vehicle or what was inside the vehicle at the time so we had a lot of different things we had to work through before we were actually able to make the recovery of the vehicle,” Richard Bacon, chief DCNR ranger at Lackawanna State Park, said.

Dive teams removed mud from the vehicle. Sunday morning a Ford box truck appeared from the water 30 yards off the dock. Through VIN verification, the truck was last registered in 2008. Investigators believed it could have been submerged for eight to 12 years.

“There’s definitely a situation involved that’s under investigation that we cannot release right now. We suspect it was involved in a crime, yes, but it’s not confirmed at this point,” Bacon said.

First responders spent the rest of the day trying to contain fuel and oil released from the truck during its recovery. Their main concern? Making sure it didn’t make its way past the dam, which flows into a stream.

“Everything was contained inside the vehicle prior to moving it because nothing was disturbed. Once we had to remove it from the sediment and the mud that it was in, it caused some damage to the gas tanks and other parts of the vehicle which caused the leakage,” Bacon said.

Now, there were no remains discovered in or around the truck. Why and how it ended at the bottom of Lackawanna Lake continues to be under investigation.