A procession on Wednesday morning will honor the game warden who died in Tuesday’s plane crash.
The procession will carry the body of Warden Joshua Tibbetts from Hospital Street in Augusta to Main Street in Newport, according to the Maine State Police.
It will travel up Interstate 95 around 9:15 a.m., which will likely create delays for drivers heading north on the highway.
There will be a large presence of law enforcement along the way. The public has been asked not to stop along I-95 to honor Tibbetts.
Tibbetts, an 18-year veteran of the Maine Warden Service, including three years as a pilot, was flying a plane to help stock fish in western Maine when he crashed about 11 a.m. near Schoolhouse Pond in Avon.
He died in the crash.
Tuesday’s death was the first in the line of duty for a game warden since March 2011, when pilot Daryl Ray Gordon’s plane crashed onto a frozen Clear Lake near Ashland in Aroostook County. At least 16 game wardens have died in the line of duty in the agency’s 146-year history.
The investigation into his death is ongoing.
