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Gerald M. Monahan, Jr.
Chief of Police

1395 Dunlawton Ave.
Port Orange, FL 32129
386-506-5800


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                 News Release                                           

04/30/2008
Captain Wayne M. Miller
Public Information Officer
(386) 506-5810

Case # 2008-004172        
 
                                                                                                                 
              
                 POLICE DISCOVER BODY IN LOCAL RETENTION POND 

On this date at approximately 8:00 AM, the Port Orange Police responded to 940 Village Trail, Villagio on the Lakes Condominiums, in response to a possible body floating in a retention pond on the property. Responding officers and detectives located a fully clothed male body floating approximately eight feet from the shoreline. Port Orange Detectives, along with the Volusia County Medical’s Examiner’s office, retrieved the body. There didn’t appear to be any signs of trauma to the body. An autopsy is scheduled for later this afternoon.

The identity of the body is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Port Orange detectives are conducting this death investigation.