City police and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office’s Coroner Bureau are investigating after a body was recovered in a creek near Arlington Avenue Sunday.
A resident in the 400 block of Arlington found the body “partially submerged in the water of a creek bed behind their property” around 4:21 p.m., Berkeley police spokesperson Office Jessica Perry said in an email.
Since the victim was at the bottom of a steep ravine, city police called in the Berkeley Fire Department’s rescue team, Perry said. After the fire department got the body out of the creek bed, the coroner’s bureau took custody.
Neither city police nor the coroner’s bureau have identified the victim or specified a cause of death, but Perry said the death does not seem to be suspicious.
