Crime & Safety
Man Found Dead In Car In Napa County
A 23-year-old man was found dead Saturday morning after his vehicle likely went into a steep ravine in Napa County.
NAPA COUNTY, CA — A 23-year-old man was found dead Saturday morning after his vehicle likely went into a steep ravine in Napa County late Thursday night or early Friday morning, sheriff's officials said.
Volunteers and a Napa County search and rescue team located Julio Caach at about 8:30 a.m. Saturday in a ravine in thick vegetation in the 3000 block of Monticello Road.
The Napa County Sheriff's Office was notified at 4:20 p.m. Friday about a missing person who may be in Napa County, sheriff's spokesman Henry Wofford said.
Wofford said, according to Santa Rosa police, Caach was following another car during inclement weather and the people in the vehicle ahead of him lost sight of him.
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Sheriff's deputies and the California Highway Patrol Air Operations Unit searched Friday until dark looking for Caach without any luck. Caach was found dead in his vehicle, Wofford said.
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