Tarpon Springs police find body of missing man last seen calling for help from water
(Tarpon Springs Police Department)
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - Police have found the body of a man who had last been seen calling for help from the water behind a Tarpon Springs bar early Tuesday morning.
Around 3:40 a.m., officers responded to the Bridge Lounge on Pinellas Ave. after a witness reported seeing a man in the water calling for help. When police arrived, they could not find the man, but located a bicycle and a cell phone.
Investigators said the phone was linked to 27-year-old Robert Fiscus.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit was called to the scene to search from the air, while members of the Tarpon Springs Fire Department and police searched the water by boat and along the shore, but they were unable to locate anyone. Police listed him as "missing and endangered" early Tuesday afternoon.
Around 2:30 p.m., officers were notified about a body floating in Salt Lake, near the area of Riverside Ridge Road – about two miles east of where Fiscus had been reported missing 11 hours earlier.
After the body was turned over to the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office, police said it was positively identified as Fiscus.
Police are continuing to investigate and say no further information will be released at this time.