Two teens drown in South Umpqua River over the weekend

Roseburg, Ore. –Two teenage boys are dead after they were dared to swim across the South Umpqua River.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a water rescue on the river at the end of Charter Oaks Road in Roseburg just after seven p.m. on Saturday.

Deputies say 16-year-old Dustin Conopa and 17-year-old Froylan Carrion-Estrada were seen going under the water and not resurfacing.

Deputies say one boy began to drown and the other went back to help.

Around 10:45 Sunday morning the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office dive team found the two boys at the bottom of the river in 20 feet of water just a few inches apart.