LIVERMORE — Authorities found a body Monday afternoon dumped in a landfill in rural Livermore, after workers spotted what they believed to be a dead body amid heaps of trash, according to the Alameda County Sheriff Department.
Around 2:15 p.m. Monday, sheriff’s deputies and investigators were called to the Altamont Landfill in Livermore, on the eastern edge of Alameda County.
“Workers located what they suspected to be a deceased person in the debris and garbage,” said Sgt. Ray Kelly. “It’s likely that the person was discarded in the trash, and the body made its way through the transfer station, which is the last stop (before the landfill).”
About 2:15pm, ACSO responded to the landfill in rural Livermore for a report of a found body. The body was likely discarded in another city and transferred to this location. Workers noticed body and called. Detectives are working this suspicious death. pic.twitter.com/Ed0wBlrERY
— Alameda County Sheriff (@ACSOSheriffs) January 1, 2019
Authorities are treating it as a suspicious death. Kelly did not have information about the gender or identity of the individual.
“We don’t know the cause and manner of death, but foul play is likely suspected,” Kelly said.
