Personnel gather at the secured scene.
Contributed photoTHE DALLES — City police recovered a body from a storage unit at U-Haul on July 29, after a citizen reported it.
At 9:39 a.m., a citizen called The Dalles police to report they had purchased an abandoned storage locker, and a container inside the locker seemed to hold human remains.
Officers responded and secured the area, according to a press release. They found enough info to call in the Columbia Gorge Major Crimes for an investigation.
The Wasco County District Attorney consulted at the scene and in the preparation of a search warrant.
The Mid-Columbia Major Crimes Team is made of investigators from The Dalles and Hood River police departments, Oregon State Police, and the sheriff’s offices of Wasco, Gilliam, Sherman and Hood River counties.
At about 5 p.m. that day, Major Crimes Team members helped by the Oregon State Police Crime Laboratory response team executed a search warrant at 2640 W. 6th Street, The Dalles — aka U-Haul Storage — and recovered human remains.
An autopsy will be before the State Medical Examiner can determine identity. More information can’t be released until later in the investigation, but will be disclosed “as soon as possible,” said Chief Tom Worthy.
The Dalles police “cautions against speculation or any conclusions based on the information released here,” read the press release. “Every available resource is being brought to bear to investigate this potential crime and I have every confidence in the abilities or our Detectives and our partner agencies assisting us in this investigation,” Worthy said via press release.
Those resources include the Gorge Major Crimes Team, OSP crime lab, and federal partners.
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