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Authorities Investigating Discovery Of Body Near South Coast Orchard

Authorities are trying to determine what led to the death of a person whose body was found in a rural area of Ventura County.

A real estate agent showing a citrus orchard near Fillmore to some prospective buyers discovered the body Friday morning.  The body was on the 1500 block of Telegraph Road.

Ventura County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the death, but there's no word on whether it's considered to be suspicious.  They aren't saying whether it was a male or female.  An autopsy is pending.

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.