PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona authorities have confirmed that human remains recently found are those of a man missing for nearly a decade.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says dental records confirmed the remains found buried near Bagdad, Arizona, belonged to year-old Lawrence Powers, who was 58 when last seen in 2007.
The Sheriff’s Office says Powers was a partner in a mining claim outside of Bagdad with Anthony Richards, who is jailed on charges accusing him of identity theft and fraud in the use of a credit card belonging to Powers.
Powers was declared to be presumed dead by a California court in 2012.
Richards was returned to Arizona in 2016 after being arrested in the area of Terrebonne, Oregon.
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