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Missing man found dead at Salt River
The search is over for a 20-year-old man who went missing Saturday while tubing on the Salt River. Juan Tepezano's body was spotted from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office helicopter at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
A spokesman said the body was found about 100 yards south of the garbage dump, near where the victim went under while tubing with friends Saturday. An airboat will pick up Tepezano's body.
Sheriff's detective Aaron Douglas said Tepezano was floating in an inner tube with family and friends when his tube broke free from the group. All of them had been bound together. Douglas said Tepezano fell off his tube and he tried to swim toward a cliff wall. A large group of tubers floated over Tepezano, and he did not resurface.
Sheriff's lake patrollers conducted the initial search Saturday and Sunday.
Tepezano was from Brawley, Calif.
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