Lawmen investigate after body found in central Arkansas

FILE — A Pulaski County sheriff's office vehicle is shown in this 2019 file photo.
FILE — A Pulaski County sheriff's office vehicle is shown in this 2019 file photo.

Pulaski County deputies are investigating the death of a man who was found near railroad tracks northwest of Maumelle, a spokesman said Sunday night.

A Union Pacific railroad employee reported finding the body of an adult around 7 p.m. near Arkansas 365 and Mountain Crest Drive, sheriff's spokesman Mitch McCoy said.

Criminal investigation division investigators went to the area and were working to determine whether the death was a homicide, McCoy said.

The identity of the man was not immediately released.

Mountain Crest Drive is in the northern portion of Pulaski County northwest of Maumelle.

Metro on 12/16/2019

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