Pasco Deputies Identify Body Found In Wesley Chapel Woods

WESLEY CHAPEL, FL --The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has identified a body discovered Saturday in a wooded area as 60-year-old Robert Hines of Hillsborough County.

Deputies say the body was found Saturday, Sept. 22, at about 11:30 a.m. near the intersection of Beardsley Drive and Broughton Place by two people walking in the area. They flagged down a deputy to report the body.

Deputies found the "highly decomposed body" in what appeared to be a homeless camp site. The body was tentatively identified as Hines based on an identification card found nearby.

Hines had not been reported missing. Relatives told deputies he had several medical issues.

A medical examiner said the death does not appear to be suspicious.

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