diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
index c332e2111..1f1121228 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ public class JavadocMethodCheck extends AbstractTypeAwareCheck {
 
             tagIt.remove();
 
-            boolean found = false;
+            boolean found;
             final String arg1 = tag.getFirstArg();
             found = removeMatchingParam(params, arg1);