Human remains found Tuesday afternoon inside a vehicle at a Pope County salvage yard have been identified as belonging to two missing 22-year-old men, according to authorities.
In a news release Wednesday, the Pope County sheriff's office, citing results from the state Crime Laboratory, confirmed the identities as Aaron Brock and Beau DeWitt, both of Yell County.
Their deaths are being investigated as homicides, according to authorities.
The men were found when sheriff's deputies responded around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday to U-Pull-It Auto Salvage Yard at 3001 Mobile Ave. on the south side of Russellville, according to Arkansas State Police.
Dardanelle Police Chief Montie Sims told Arkansas Online on Wednesday afternoon that his agency received information Saturday from Brock's mother, who reported that her son went missing from their home in Dardanelle on Friday night.
"It wasn't until we started follow-up on leads that it became [aware] to us that the other individual, the DeWitt boy, was with Brock," he said.
Sims said police were later told that Brock and DeWitt had been dropped off outside the salvage yard around midnight Friday.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported that the vehicle containing the remains was removed from the salvage yard Tuesday and delivered to the state Crime Lab for removal and examination of the remains.
A spokesman for the sheriff's office said additional information regarding the investigation was not immediately available.
Check back with Arkansas Online for updates on this story and read Thursday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.