Body turns up in agricultural area in Miami-Dade

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade police officers used a yellow tarp to cover the body of a dead person on Monday in an agricultural area.

The body was near the intersection of Southwest 243rd Street and Southwest 152nd Avenue, according to Detective Argemis Colome, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Detectives investigate how a person turned up dead on Monday in an agricultural area in Miami-Dade County. (Copyright 2020 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.)

Colome didn’t have information about the person’s manner of death.

Detectives investigate how a person's body turned up on Monday in an agricultural field in Miami-Dade. (Copyright 2020 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.)

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Allison Cubillos contributed to this report.


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