MIRAMAR, Fla. – The Miramar Police Department reported that an 18-year-old man who vanished on Monday night turned up dead in a lake on Thursday evening.
The body of Linnon Latham, better known as L.J., was in a lake near Vizcaya Park, at 14200 SW 55 St., according to Tania Rues, a spokeswoman for the department.
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“At present time, no foul play is suspected,” Rues wrote.
The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office had custody of Latham’s body on Friday and was charged with determining his cause of death, according to Rues.
Detectives asked for the public’s help to find Latham on Wednesday after he was last seen alive at about 11:30 p.m., on Monday, near Vizcaya Park, which remained flooded Friday after Wednesday’s deluge.
Deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office, police officers with the Pembroke Pines and Miami-Dade police departments, and the South Florida Water Management District personnel helped Miramar detectives with the search.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.