02-01-2011, 02:19 PM
a child's body has been found in canal. waiting for more details. :(
A San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority worker spotted the body.
Workers pulled the body out of the water before Merced County sheriff's officials arrived.
A child's body was found in the Delta-Mendota Canal near Santa Nella today, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department reported. The child's identity and sex were not immediately determined, but the Merced County Sheriff's office said the child's clothing matched those of Patterson boy kidnapped two weeks ago.
The body was found this morning about 30 miles downstream from where investigators believe 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas and abductor Jose Esteban Rodriguez entered the canal in the kidnapper's car Jan. 18.
Stanislaus County Sheriff's spokesman Royjindar Singh said there would be a news conference in Patterson between 11 a.m. and noon today.
Singh did not know who found the body, exactly when it was found or any other circumstances.
Detectives recovered the body at mid-morning, he said.
A San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority worker spotted the body.
Workers pulled the body out of the water before Merced County sheriff's officials arrived.
A child's body was found in the Delta-Mendota Canal near Santa Nella today, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department reported. The child's identity and sex were not immediately determined, but the Merced County Sheriff's office said the child's clothing matched those of Patterson boy kidnapped two weeks ago.
The body was found this morning about 30 miles downstream from where investigators believe 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas and abductor Jose Esteban Rodriguez entered the canal in the kidnapper's car Jan. 18.
Stanislaus County Sheriff's spokesman Royjindar Singh said there would be a news conference in Patterson between 11 a.m. and noon today.
Singh did not know who found the body, exactly when it was found or any other circumstances.
Detectives recovered the body at mid-morning, he said.