SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE
The Bexar County Medical Examiner has identified a man’s body found floating inside a water diversion tank at a SAWS treatment plant.
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A worker found the body of 37-year-old Moody Arteaga around 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, floating in a tank at the Leon Creek Water Recycling Facility, according to San Antonio police.
A cause and manner of death was not available from the medical examiner on Monday morning.
ORIGINAL:
The body of a missing man was found floating inside a water diversion tank at San Antonio Water System’s treatment plant property, according to San Antonio police.
The discovery was made around 9 a.m. on Saturday at the Leon Creek Water Recycling Facility.
A worker was checking the water diversion tank and noticed a body floating in the water face down.
Police said the worker notified another person to confirm that what he found was a human body since mannequins are sometimes found in the water tank.
The two concluded that the discovery was a human body and called police.
The San Antonio Fire Department’s Hazmat Unit responded to the scene to remove the body because it was located inside a sewage tank, police said.
When the body was removed from the tank, it had obvious signs of decomposition, but there were not any trauma-inflicted wounds.
SAPD determined that the unidentified man suffered an apparent sudden death.
The day before the body was found inside the tank, a worker found a backpack with credit cards and two cell phones next to it.
When police entered the name on the credit cards through a computerized system, it returned as a missing person.
