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Multiple agencies investigating suspicious death on Central Coast

Yellow police tape stretches across a crime scene. Wording on the tape reads 'Police. Do Not Cross.'
David von Diemar
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Man's body discovered near Veterans Memorial in Guadalupe.

What's being called a suspicious death is under investigation on the Central Coast.

Guadalupe Police were called to the 800 block of Guadalupe Street at around 2 p.m. Monday by reports of a man on the ground. They found the body of an adult man near the gazebo area of the Veterans Memorial Plaza.

Guadalupe Police say due to the complexity of the situation, they asked Santa Barbara County Sheriff's detectives to take the lead in the investigation.

Investigators haven't released the man's name yet, or details about the cause of death.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.