Kings County sheriff helps recover body of missing 15-year-old in Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Deputies with the Kings County Sheriff's Office joined the hunt for a missing at-risk teen successful Santa Cruz implicit the weekend, and yet helped retrieve his body.

The sheriff's bureau assisted the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office connected July 25 successful the hunt for an at-risk missing 15-year-old aft they requested the Kings County Sheriff's airboat. The airboat was utilized to hunt a ample ponding basin.

At first, deputies study being unsuccessful with the usage of the airboat, truthful the usage of the Kings County Sheriff's broadside scan sonar inflatable vessel was requested.

On July 27, with the assistance of a hunt K9, deputies assisted successful locating and recovering a decedent successful the ponding basin.

The individuality of the teen has not been released.