LONGVIEW — The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office has launched a death investigation after a body was discovered near a logging road in Ariel on Monday morning.
According to a department press release, a call was made at about 8 a.m. to Cowlitz 911 to report an unresponsive person found on logging road along Lewis River Road, also known as State Route 503, near Lake Merwin.
A Washington State Patrol Trooper was the first law enforcement officer to arrive at the scene, where he found an unresponsive man, later determined to be dead.
No other identifying information about the man has been released.
Detectives from the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office also arrived at the scene to investigate due to what the press release calls “suspicious circumstances,” but does not elaborate.
