Dead body found at Cottonwood Creek

B Street (the western continuation of Encinitas Boulevard) is closed and there is crime scene tape all over Cottonwood Creek west of 101 near Moonlight Beach.

Sources tell Encinitas Undercover that a dead body was found in the bushes. Maybe a homeless person died of natural causes, but this is an awful lot of police and crime scene tape and media for natural causes. Was it a murder?




Sheriff deputies confer on the trail between the tennis courts and Moonlight Lofts.



The view from Second Street.



Watching the detectives: the cars parked facing the wrong way on the opposite side of the street appeared to be legions of plainclothes detectives. The white van on the left is the coroner van.



UPDATE: NCTimes' Morgan Cook says it was a man, and looks like natural causes.