Swimmer carrying rock drowns on birthday

A swimmer trying cross a wildlife-area pond while holding a large rock drowned Monday in Oroville.

California Highway Patrol officers said Austin Harr of Gridley was celebrating his 21st birthday with a swim at the dredger ponds when he sank below the surface about 5 p.m.

Investigators later found his body, according to KCRA in Sacramento.

No further information was available.