The autopsy showed that the man from Florida, whose remains were discovered including in the stomach of the alligator in June of this year, died from a meth overdose.
Part of the body of 45-year-old Michael Ford II found on June 27 on the territory owned by the Florida company for phosphate mining the Mosaic. Near the remains were 11-foot (3 m) alligator.
This week in the office of the Polk County medical examiner announced the official results of the autopsy of Michael Ford. The reason for the man’s death was an overdose of methamphetamine. It is believed that the alligator ate the remains after the victim has already died.
We’re conducting a death investigation on Mosaic property just off Peeples Road, west of Fort Meade (nearest cross street — CR 630). At 7:43 a.m. we rec’d a call in ref to an adult male body found in the water & near a gator. @MyFWC is assisting. More info will be released later pic.twitter.com/R8cYwsAcLi
— Polk County Sheriff (@PolkCoSheriff) 27 June 2019
Experts the wild were able to catch and kill the alligator suspected of the attack on the person. In the stomach of a predator found an arm and a leg Ford.
Initially, the government assumed that the man drowned, and then he began to eat alligator. It is unclear what Michael Ford was doing in the company Mosaic – it didn’t work here.
In June, investigators said the victim’s family had not heard from him for four days. The truck, which was discovered in the area, was owned by the other Ford.
According to representatives of the Department of wildlife of Florida, alligators are found in all 67 counties of the sunshine state, their population reaches 1.3 million individuals.
«Alligators prefer to hunt for prey if they are easy to defeat her. Opportunity is the main factor that makes alligator to chase prey» — the experts.
