NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Authorities in central Nebraska on Tuesday identified a man whose body was pulled a day earlier from a water-filled canal a couple of miles southwest of North Platte.
The body was that of Nicholas Legas, 68, of rural North Platte, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. Officials were called around 11 a.m. Monday when Legas’ coworkers found a body in the water, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies and a dive team responded to the scene and pulled the body from the water.
Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer said Legas’ coworkers and family members began searching for him when he did not show up for work Monday morning.
His vehicle was found several miles upstream from where the body was found, officials said.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday.
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