Staff Writer

 The body of a man reported missing last November was found last week in Saco.

Christopher Noonan, 27, was reported missing by his family after he was last seen running into the woods near his Jenkins Road home following an argument with his wife on Nov. 21. His body was found May 13 by a homeowner plowing a field on Flag Pond Road.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner positively identified Noonan Monday. The cause of death remains under investigation pending further studies.

Deputy Police Chief Jeffrey Holland said police do not consider the death suspicious and have concluded their investigation.

“There’s nothing that leads us to believe it’s anything other than what it appears,” he said.

A Flag Pond Road property owner called police around 10:45 a.m. Friday to report he found a deceased person in the wood line at the rear of his property, police said. The property owner told police he was plowing field when he made the discovery.

Noonan was found about one-half mile from where he was last seen.

After Noonan was reported missing, the Maine Warden Service assisted local police with an extensive search of the area. Wardens used a plane and K-9 units to search the area near Jenkins Road and the Saco Heath.

Holland said K-9 units were able to partially follow Noonan’s path through the woods, but may have lost the trail in a wet area. Units did not search the area where his body was found, he said. 

Investigators later received a phone call from a man who said he talked to Noonan on Nov. 23, two days after he was last seen. Police suspended further searches and said they thought Noonan was staying with a friend in the Sanford area.

“We feel confident he is alive,” Holland said in December.

Saco police had planned another search for this week, but canceled it after Noonan’s body was found. 

Staff Writer Gillian Graham can be reached at 282-4337, ext. 213.