Man's Decomposed Body Discovered in Remote Plunge Creek North of Highland

A man's decomposed body was found Sunday morning in a remote part of the Plunge Creek watershed north of Highland, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

"Sheriff's dispatch received a call at 9:30 a.m. that a hiker had located a partially decomposed body in Plunge Creek," Jodi Miller of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said.

The deceased was an adult male, Miller said. The area was about two and a half miles north of Highland and it was accessible only by hiking in or by helicopter, Miller said.

"Deputies were taken to the area by Sheriff's Aviation and confirmed a deceased male partially decomposed," Miller said.

Homicide investigators responded and they were conducting a death investigation, Miller said. There were no apparent signs of foul play.

The Plunge Creek watershed includes steep ground below Running Springs and Highway 330 east of City Creek.

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