SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — A man's body was found Wednesday morning near a dairy farm in Galt during a routine cleaning of an area of farm, sheriff's officials confirm.
The body was found just before 10 a.m. inside of an area where manure was being processed on a working dairy farm near the 9900 block of Arno Road, according to Sacramento County Sheriff's spokesperson Tess Deterding.
Deterding said a farm worker found the man while cleaning the area where manure and waste get processed, something they do a few times a year.
The man does not appear to be an employee at the farm. Deterding said the farm workers are cooperating with officials.
Deterding told ABC10 that the body appeared to have been there for a while, was fully clothed and did not appear to have any bodily trauma. The man was not a missing person based on a tentative identification, Deterding said.
Still, sheriff's investigators are labeling it as a suspicious death.
"It's not a common thing to come across, so we call it suspicious just by the nature of having a body found in that type of condition on a farm that close to a roadway out in that world area," Deterding explained. "So that just simply means we don’t have enough information to call it a homicide."
ABC10 will update this story as more information becomes available.
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