KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Authorities have confirmed that a body discovered in Clear Lake on Monday was that of a Kelseyville man who disappeared the previous day.
Lt. Steve Brooks of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the body of 31-year-old Cuong Minh Tran was found late Monday morning in Konocti Bay, more than 30 hours after he was last seen by family members.
Brooks said that on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. sheriff’s deputies responded to the 10000 block of Boren Bega Drive in Kelseyville on the report of a missing person.
Deputies arriving on scene met with Tran’s family members, who reported that he walked away from the residence at 1 a.m. that day and had not returned, Brooks said.
Tran’s family said that when he was last seen at 1 a.m. he had gone into the living room to watch television. At approximately 1:30 a.m. a family member went to check on him and noticed he was gone, Brooks said.
Brooks said the house was searched and Tran’s family members were unable to locate him. The family could not provide any information as to where Tran could have gone.
The deputies conducted an extensive search of both the interior and exterior of the residence. Brooks said a search also was conducted of the heavily wooded area behind the house with negative results.
At 11 a.m. Monday Lake County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol Deputies were dispatched to the area of Konocti Bay for a possible coroner’s case, Brooks said.
It was reported that a boater had located what appeared to be a body in the water along the shoreline. The location of the body was in close proximity to the residence Tran went missing from, according to Brooks.
A coroner’s investigation was conducted and the body was positively identified as being that of Tran, Brooks said.
The cause of death is pending a post mortem exam, Brooks reported.